A medical team in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City has extracted a herringbone earring in the form of the cartoon character Hello Kitty from the stomach of a citizen girl whose mother said she got it from a drawer and swallowed it.
She said her daughter felt pain and severe shortness of breath, and went into a constant crying bout.
Dr. David Root, a consultant for pediatric gastrointestinal tracts in Sheikh Khalifa City, said that the hospital received the three-year-old girl after she swallowed a gold earring and settled in her digestive system.
"Although coins (dirhams) are the most ingested foreign objects from children, batteries and magnets come in second and third," he said.
`` They pose a significant risk of injury to the digestive system. ''
He explained that the ingestion of foreign objects has a significant impact on the family in terms of psychological and physical, where it causes families to feel anxiety and extreme fear for their child in addition to the financial burden of extraction of the foreign body, whether through the endoscope or surgery, pointing out that this can be avoided with caution Severe monitoring of children and preventing their access to any foreign object can be swallowed.
For his part, a consultant and head of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Dr. Mohammed Miqdadi, warned against leaving the dirhams, metal objects, batteries, pins and magnets within reach of children. `` If parents suspect that their child has swallowed a foreign substance, they should go to the nearest emergency center to confirm this, '' he said, noting that from January 2016 to December 2018, the Children's Department of Sheikh Khalifa Medical City received at least 258 children. Swallow of coins, batteries and magnetic metals for children aged six months to 18 years.
A study issued by Sheikh Khalifa Medical City confirmed that the average cost of treatment for ingestion of children pieces of metal, such as dirham and half dirham - the most common - amounted to six thousand dirhams per case.
It also confirmed that swallowing batteries, pieces and magnetic cubes, which are promoted in the market as educational toys, is one of the most serious cases of ingestion, because the internal parts of the body interact with them, leaving the effects of burns and infections in the esophagus or intestines, and need urgent operation to extract them.