China News Service, Wuhan, August 25 (Xue Yuan, Zhang Qin) The girl did not like to eat and suffered abdominal pain inexplicably. After going to the hospital for examination, she discovered that she had "stolen" the magnetic toy buck ball, which caused intestinal perforation everywhere. The magnetic beads taken out by emergency surgery are magnetic and can quickly hold the surgical forceps. The reporter learned from Wuhan Children's Hospital on the 25th that in the past more than a month, the hospital has admitted 7 cases of accidentally swallowing buckballs, most of which are young children under 4 years old.
Buckball taken from the small intestine of a child, courtesy of Wuhan Children's Hospital
A 2-year-old girl, Xixi (pseudonym) lives in Huangpi. Recently, she has been very healthy for a week and said that she has a stomachache and is unwilling to eat. The family thought the child had stomach upset and brought her to Wuhan Children's Hospital for examination, but unexpectedly found digestion. Road foreign body. It can be clearly seen from the X-ray that there are two spherical metal foreign bodies in Xixi's belly tightly together.
The doctor asked about the medical history in detail, and the mother remembered that the daughter might have swallowed the elder brother's toy buck ball by mistake. The doctor made an emergency operation to explore the intestines and took out two magnetic beads about 5 mm in diameter from the girl's small intestine. Although these beads were small, they caused serious damage to Xixi, with as many as 4 small intestinal perforations.
According to Wang Xin, a general surgeon at Wuhan Children's Hospital, a magnetic bead the size of a soybean can suck up two or three one-yuan coins. The appearance of magnetic beads is very similar to jelly beans. Children are easily attracted by its "cute" appearance. Once ingested by mistake, the beads will squeeze between the beads in the intestine as the small intestine moves downwards. As a result, intestinal obstruction or intestinal perforation may be caused, and in severe cases, severe infection of the abdominal cavity may be caused, which is life-threatening.
It is reported that in the past month, the General Surgery Department of Wuhan Children's Hospital admitted 7 cases of children who swallowed a buck ball by mistake. Most of them came to the clinic for symptoms such as abdominal pain and vomiting, and most of them have caused serious consequences such as gastrointestinal perforation. The doctor reminded that when buying toys for children, be sure to choose healthy and safe children’s toys, read the reminder signs on the toy packaging bags, and do not choose toys with removable parts smaller than the population size, so as to prevent children from entering them by mistake . (Finish)