Parents with infants and young children should never let their children eat drupe foods such as melon seeds and pistachios, so as to avoid blocking the trachea due to choking! Recently, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital admitted five children under 3 years old with tracheal foreign body obstruction, all of whom were treated because of persistent asthma cough or ineffective drugs. By soft bronchoscopy, it was diagnosed as tracheal foreign body obstruction, which was caused by choking after eating these drupes.
Five children with tracheal foreign body obstruction were treated within 65438 0.5 months.
Dr. Lin Wanni from the Department of Otolaryngology, Linkou Chang Gung Hospital said that the most common foreign body in the early stage was jelly, which could cause acute respiratory obstruction in children and even asphyxia. Recently, such accidents have decreased a lot; However, in recent years, the accidents of lower respiratory tract obstruction caused by the choking of drupe seeds are still high. After the Spring Festival this year 1.5 months, five children under 3 years old with tracheal foreign body obstruction were treated continuously.
Pat the child on the back, lest the foreign body fall deeper into the trachea.
Dr. Lin Wanni pointed out that children under 5 years old have a higher probability of foreign bodies choking into the trachea because of incomplete chewing function. Sometimes children choke, and adults will pat their children on the back in a hurry, which may cause food crumbs to fall deeper into the trachea. Moreover, small foreign bodies are often blocked for a period of time and are only discovered when symptoms of chronic lung infection appear.
The average age was 2.2 years old 1 13.
According to the statistics of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Linkou, 65,438+02 children under the age of 65,438+06 and 438+03 were taken out of foreign bodies by rigid bronchoscope due to tracheal obstruction, with an average age of 2.2 years. The incidence rate of boys is higher than that of girls, 90% of them are drupe seeds, and the prone month is 13.
Removal of foreign body by rigid bronchoscope
Dr. Lin Wanni further pointed out that the diagnosis method of tracheal foreign body obstruction is soft bronchoscopy or tomography, and hard bronchoscopy is the first choice for foreign body removal. However, if the foreign body is too deep or the foreign body material, such as glass beads, can't be squeezed out of the bronchus, it needs to be taken out by thoracotomy.
Don't feed dried fruits, drupes and seed snacks to children under 5 years old.
Prevention is better than cure. Dr. Lin Wanni reminded parents not to feed dried fruits, stone fruits and seed snacks to children under 5 years old, and also to educate children not to talk, run, laugh and play while eating, and not to put small toys in their mouths. Once the child is found to be suffocating or even blocking the airway, parents must keep calm and help the child not to cry, so as not to aggravate the condition and go to the hospital as soon as possible.
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