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The doctor brought the small intestine containing the foreign object to the incision in the navel, opened the jejunum to take the foreign object while 18 magnetic marbles were grouped in the abdomen of a 3-year-old boy – Photo: provided by the hospital
On the afternoon of December 22, Dr. Nguyen Cat Phuong Vu (the active resuscitation department of City Children’s Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City) said that he had just cut and connected the small intestine to save a child with TTHS (3 years old, living in District 8, HCMC). By swallowing 18 magnets in the mother’s eye massage machine.
According to the family, baby S. took and played the magnetic marbles on the eye massage machine and swallowed. When the mother found out, the baby had swallowed all the marbles in the abdomen.
The family immediately took the baby to the City Children’s Hospital. Here, the baby has no abdominal pain, does not vomit, but is extremely scared. The doctor took a plate, checked it to find the foreign body in the stomach, so urgent gastrointestinal endoscopy should be continued. The results showed that the foreign body had entered the baby’s small intestine.
CThe evil doctors on the crew decided to urgently investigate laparoscopic surgery. BS.CKI Do Huy Trong Hieu brought the bulging intestine containing the foreign object to the incision at the navel, opened loose The strange object is 18 magnetic marbles, glued together. After surgery, baby S. recovered well and is expected to be discharged after a few days.
Dr. Vu said nForeign matter is a common problem for children, especially between the ages of 6 months and 5 years because young children often explore the world by putting things in their mouths.
In many cases, the foreign bodies will be carried out of the body through the intestinal tract, but in some cases they remain in the digestive tract and cause serious complications such as intestinal perforation, intestinal obstruction, obstruction. acute respiratory tract, can even be fatal if the emergency is not adequate and rapid.
All gastrointestinal objects, which can only be removed endoscopically when they have not yet been transferred to the stomach. If the foreign body has entered the duodenum, it must be opened. Even when laparoscopy catches foreign bodies, doctors believe that because children need anesthesia, there is more or less a risk of poor health, added Dr. Vu.
Doctors recommend that parents keep small, easy-to-swallow objects such as coins, small batteries, buttons, marbles, stones, screws, staples, beans, small magnets, etc. toy parts … out of the reach of children to avoid possible unfortunate circumstances.
