China News Service, Harbin, July 3 (Wei Ran reporter Shi Yifu) "Look, the coin is in the child's stomach, and you can still see a dime of '1' under ultrasound medical images." On the 3rd, in the operating room of Harbin Children's Hospital, the doctor took a dime coin from the stomach of a 3 and a half-year-old Xiaoxin (a pseudonym, the same below) through a gastroscope. This coin was already in the child's stomach More than ten days.
On the 2nd, Xiaoxin was taken to Harbin Children's Hospital by his parents. The parents said that the child accidentally swallowed a dime coin 10 days ago. When a X-ray examination at the local hospital revealed a foreign body in the abdominal cavity.
At first I thought that small and smooth coins would be discharged along with the digestive tract, which saved the child from the pain of surgery, but after waiting for 10 days, the child was not discharged. The X-ray examination again found that the coins were still not moving.
Dr. Shuang Liu from the Color Acoustics Department of Harbin Children’s Hospital, through ultrasound imaging, very clearly saw that the coin is still steadily on the bottom of the child’s stomach. Although the stomach is constantly moving, the shape of the coin remains the same. "Word" toward the outside.
The picture shows the doctor in the operation for the boy. Wei Ranshe
On the 3rd, Meng Fanping, the director of the hospital's endoscopy, underwent gastroscopy under anesthesia. The gastroscope entered the stomach and saw a coin in the stomach fundus. It was repeatedly withdrawn with a snare. After being caught, the foreign body was taken out of the body with the gastroscope. Because the coin stayed in the child's stomach for more than ten days, it was corroded by stomach acid and oxidized and blackened immediately after encountering oxygen.
Children in infancy like all kinds of small toys, such as coins, buttons, jujube cores, small ornaments and even sewing needles, batteries and other foreign objects, which are often placed in the mouth when parents do not pay attention.
"Should a child swallow a foreign body to see a doctor immediately? Or should it be observed for a period of time?" Cong Deyou, a chest and brain surgeon at Harbin Children's Hospital, said that it should depend on the nature, volume and shape of the foreign body.
"Small foreign bodies in the blunt small digestive tract can be excreted on their own. Large or sharp foreign bodies often cannot pass through the narrow parts of the digestive tract or cause mucosal damage." Cong Deyou said that smooth, round, like coins, non-magnetic balls, etc. It is very likely that items of the type will be discharged along with the digestive tract. Observe this situation first, which can reduce the pain of the child. If it is a large, sharp or horny object, you should go to the hospital immediately to avoid scratching your child's digestive tract, or intestinal obstruction or perforation of your child's digestive tract due to long-term inability to discharge. (Finish)