6-year-old boy has had many foreign objects in his airway for a long time

The patient is YSN (born in 2019, residing in Yang Mao commune, Krong Bong district). On April 2, the hospital admitted the patient with difficulty breathing, wheezing, and diffuse rales in the lungs, especially in the right lung.

According to the patient's family, a month ago, the child had a persistent cough at the nursery and had not been treated in many places. The cough symptoms became worse and the difficulty breathing increased, especially at night, so the family took the child to the hospital. After recording the case, doctors at the Central Highlands General Hospital performed a chest X-ray.

The doctor checks the child's health after removing a foreign object from the airway.

The results showed a suspicious image of a small radiopaque foreign body, with signs of localized lung collapse and increased brightness in the right lung, suggesting partial obstruction. The child was then anesthetized with endotracheal intubation and bronchoscopy. The results showed that the foreign body was a small transparent LED light, located in the lower lobe bronchus of the right lung, causing inflammation and partial obstruction of the right lung.

After identifying the foreign object, the doctors quickly and successfully removed it.

However, after removing the LED light bulb foreign body, the doctors monitored and discovered that the child's symptoms had not completely subsided. Realizing that the difficulty breathing was not commensurate with the lung damage, raising the question of the existence of another foreign body, in order not to miss any possibility, the child was further prescribed a comprehensive CT scan by the doctors.

The unexpected result was the discovery of another foreign object in the posterior nasal opening. On the afternoon of April 3, the doctors continued to perform a posterior nasal endoscopy, and successfully removed the foreign object, a pencil eraser, which was stuck for an unknown amount of time.

After 2 times of removing the foreign object, the child still has severe pneumonia due to prolonged obstruction and is continuing to be treated at the General Pediatrics Department with antibiotics, oxygen support, and close monitoring of respiratory progress.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202504/be-trai-6-tuoi-mac-nhieu-di-vat-duong-tho-trong-thoi-gian-dai-9831088/