The patient is a 68-year-old woman who unconsciously swallowed a bracelet with 8 beads ( photo - size about 0.5 x 0.8 cm/bead) while sleeping.
Thai Nguyen Central General Hospital
The patient said that because he listened to the advertisement, when holding the stone ring, it would emit rays, which would cure sore throats and throat diseases, so he held the stone ring. However, the patient fell asleep while holding the ring. When he woke up, he discovered that the ring had gone down his throat. The patient tried to vomit, but the ring continued to go down. The patient was quickly taken to the emergency room at Thai Nguyen Central General Hospital by his family.
At the hospital, Dr. Nguyen Van Hung and nurse Dang Hoang Son (Digestive Department) performed an emergency endoscopy and removed the ring from the patient's stomach. The patient was stable and discharged after a period of health monitoring at the hospital.
Doctor Nguyen Van Hung recommends: When swallowing a foreign object, the patient should not pick at his throat, causing further damage to the digestive tract mucosa. The patient should immediately go to the nearest reputable medical facility for examination and endoscopy to remove the foreign object, avoiding unpredictable complications that may occur.
An ENT specialist confirmed: Currently in medicine, there is no method of "sucking on stone beads to treat sore throat" and it is not allowed by the regulatory agency in treatment. When sick, patients need to see a specialist to determine the exact cause in order to have the appropriate treatment method.
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