While fishing, a perch jumped into a man's mouth and got stuck in his throat.

SGGPO 06/21/2023 18:21

While fishing, when the patient accidentally opened his mouth, a perch suddenly jumped into his mouth and went down his throat. After nearly 30 minutes of effort, the doctors and nurses were able to remove the perch from his throat. The patient was in so much pain that he could not swallow due to extensive damage to his throat and tongue, causing a lot of bleeding, so he was given IV fluids to stop the bleeding.

The perch after being removed from the patient's throat. Photo: QUOC BINH

On the afternoon of June 21, Doctor CK1 Nguyen Hoang Quy, Head of the ENT Department of the Giong Rieng District Medical Center, said that the unit had just cured and discharged a patient with a foreign object, a perch, that had penetrated deep into the lower throat.

Previously, Giong Rieng Medical Center received a 53-year-old male patient who was hospitalized by his family after swallowing a perch while fishing.

According to the patient's family, while fishing, when the patient accidentally opened his mouth, a perch suddenly jumped into his mouth and went down his throat.

The family tried to get it out but failed, so they used a stick to push the fish back in and into the patient's stomach. However, because the fish had gills and hard fins, it was unable to get down and instead caused more serious damage to the patient's throat, causing a lot of bleeding.

After nearly 30 minutes of effort, the doctors used medical instruments to remove the perch from the patient's throat and used an endoscope to monitor the patient's wound. Because the fish had caused extensive damage to the patient's throat and tongue, causing a lot of bleeding. The patient was in so much pain that he could not swallow, so he was given IV fluids to stop the bleeding and gradually recover.

“In rural areas, many people often choke on foreign objects. There have been cases of people choking on fish hooks due to carelessness while eating fish intestines, usually snakehead fish. But this is the first time we have treated a school child who had a whole perch stuck in their throat,” said Dr. Quy.

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