Which foreign bodies are high-risk items?
- Battery:
The most common battery taken by mistake is button cell.
Man is a conductor, When button cell is stuck in the esophagus, it will discharge and form an electric current. This electric current lasts for 1 hour, causing mucosal necrosis, ulcer can occur in 2 hours, and perforation can be caused in 8 hours. If the baby is suspected to have swallowed the battery, parents should take the baby to the hospital for examination as soon as possible, and take it out as soon as possible after confirmation, so that the baby will suffer less.
- Magnet
Whether magnets or magnetic beads, especially when multiple magnets or magnets and iron foreign bodies are swallowed together, it is possible to cause magnets in different parts of the intestinal tract to attract each other, resulting in compression necrosis and perforation of the intestinal wall.
- A sharp foreign body
For example, needles, nails, fish bones, etc. are easily stuck on the esophageal mucosa to cause esophageal perforation. Even if they pass through the esophagus smoothly, they are also easy to cause damage, hemorrhage and infection of esophageal, gastric and intestinal mucosa.
What kind of performance will the baby have after swallowing the foreign body?
Foreign bodies stuck in the throat or esophagus, the baby will have some symptoms, such as crying, unwilling to eat, nausea and vomiting, a lot of drooling, etc.
If some foreign bodies directly enter the airway, they will suddenly suffer from cough, shortness of breath and other symptoms, and even suffocation in serious cases.
Not all babies will have special performance when swallowing foreign bodies, especially when they have just swallowed them and are not stuck in their throat or esophagus.
Therefore, as long as it is suspected that the baby has swallowed something that cannot be eaten, such as the hairpin that was originally in his hand and could not be found, or the old battery that was replaced is inexplicably missing, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for treatment and filming to rule out the possibility of swallowing foreign bodies.
Parents should not do these four things.
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If the foreign body in the throat cannot be clearly seen, it cannot be blindly pulled out with fingers to avoid nausea reflex and throat injury and edema.
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Vomiting is not recommended. Sharp foreign bodies may cause secondary damage to esophagus and risk vomiting and aspiration.
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Generally, catharsis is not recommended. As long as the child can defecate normally, it can be solved. In order to expel foreign bodies, it is not worth it to cause diarrhea, intestinal spasm and intestinal dysfunction in children.
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Other parents will drink vinegar when their children get stuck in bones, or swallow it with a big mouthful of steamed bread, which is also wrong. Drinking vinegar cannot effectively soften bones. The stuck foreign body will also easily damage esophageal mucosa if it is swallowed with steamed bread.