13-month-old baby in Nghe An swallowed a piece of steel after eating ready-made porridge
(Baonghean.vn) - After eating ready-made porridge, the child became fussy, refused to eat, and vomited mucus mixed with a little fresh blood.
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| Image of a piece of steel in the throat of a 13-month-old baby. |
On February 12, a 13-month-old baby in Vinh City was taken to the hospital by his family after he kept crying and vomiting.
According to the parents, after eating the ready-made porridge, the child became fussy, refused to eat, and vomited mucus mixed with a little fresh blood. The doctor on duty examined the child and took an X-ray, which discovered a foreign object in the throat area.
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| The steel piece after being removed. |
Doctors performed an endoscopy and removed a foreign object lodged deep in the back of the throat. It was a thin piece of steel, about 2cm long, believed to be from a porridge strainer.
"Luckily the foreign object did not go any deeper," the doctor said, adding that he had encountered a similar case more than a year ago.
