Saving a Jordanian girl from death because of a “seed”

A pediatrician in Jordan saved a little girl who almost lost her life due to a "seed".

The surgeon, Dr. Ali Al-Shobaki, said that the five-year-old girl, Maryam, arrived at Al-Bashir Hospital (east of the capital, Amman) yesterday, suffering from inhaling a foreign body in the trachea.

It later turned out that the foreign body (a seed pill) had been inhaled 8 months ago, and since then she has been suffering from frequent chest infections and shortness of breath.

Al-Shobaki added that the patient was admitted yesterday to the Pediatric Surgery Department and was diagnosed with an endoscopy and the foreign body was removed from the bronchi, and she is now in good health, according to the Saraya news website.

Al-Shobaki mentioned that these cases are repeated daily and are admitted to Al-Bashir Hospital and endoscopy operations are performed on a daily basis, and he said that there are cases that have caused the death of children who were unable to reach the operating room to perform bronchoscopy.

Al-Shobaki noted that negligence and lack of care at home first and not consulting a specialist doctor secondly, and also the absence of a correct diagnosis sometimes by some doctors may cause an increase in complications for these cases and the failure to conduct a successful diagnosis and medical procedure.

Adding that the foreign body always needs a bronchoscopy in the hospital by a pediatric surgeon.

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