While eating sausage, 13-year-old girl had to go to the emergency room for this reason

GĐXH - The child was taken to the emergency room in a state of choking, difficulty swallowing, painful swallowing, accompanied by coughing and feeling short of breath while eating breakfast.

On March 25, information from Thanh Son District Medical Center (Phu Tho) said that recently, doctors at this unit performed an emergency endoscopy on a 13-year-old child with food stuck in his esophagus.

According to the family, at home, the child ate sausage for breakfast but ate quickly, talked while eating, and was not focused. Immediately after, the child showed signs of choking, difficulty swallowing, painful swallowing, accompanied by coughing and difficulty breathing, so the family took the child to the emergency room.

The foreign object is a piece of sausage removed from the child's esophagus. Photo: Hospital.

Upon admission, the doctors quickly examined and ruled out the possibility of food entering the airway, so they ordered an emergency endoscopy of the digestive tract. During the endoscopy, the doctors discovered a soft mass of food in the upper third of the esophagus, occupying the entire circumference of the esophagus, and the endoscope could not continue or impact the mass of food.

The endoscopy team performed an endoscopic intervention to remove the food mass (suspected to be a sausage) measuring about 25 x 20 mm. Thanks to the timely intervention, the child stopped choking, his health gradually stabilized, and he was able to eat and drink normally again.

According to Dr. Nguyen Huu Hoang, Thanh Son District Medical Center, this is an extremely dangerous case. If not treated properly and promptly, the patient may experience dangerous complications such as esophageal damage (esophageal perforation, bleeding, infection, gastrointestinal obstruction, etc.), especially if food (or foreign objects) falls into the respiratory tract, it will lead to respiratory failure and even affect life.

From this case, experts recommend that to prevent children from choking on food, parents should instruct children to eat slowly, chew thoroughly, avoid eating too quickly, and not talk or laugh while eating.

For young children, parents should feed them with small spoons, slowly, choosing suitable foods, especially during the weaning period. Children who have not yet grown enough molars should not be given hard foods such as beans, peanuts, hard fruits...

First aid for children choking on food

For children under 1 year old, place the child face down on one arm, use the palm of the other hand to pat the back 5 times strongly and quickly between the 2 shoulder blades, then turn the child over. If breathing is still difficult, use 2 fingers to press the chest 5 times. For children 5-7 years old, place the baby across your thigh, pat the back area behind the upper chest 5 times.

For older children, let the child stand, leaning forward, the rescuer stands behind, arms hugging the abdomen close to the sternum, using the entire body to jerk from front to back and from bottom to top to increase the pressure in the chest to expel the foreign object. The movement must be done quickly and decisively.

Then, quickly take the child to the nearest medical facility for timely diagnosis and treatment to avoid complications.

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