Successfully removed film-coated pill from patient's esophagus

Accordingly, on the morning of May 28, the Northwest Regional General Hospital received patient Luong Thi T, 30 years old (Lien Canh village, Chau Hoan commune, Quy Chau) with a cough, sore throat, and discomfort. She was examined at the nearest medical facility but could not be treated.

At the Northwest Regional General Hospital, Ms. T was given endotracheal anesthesia, an endoscope was inserted through the esophagus, an esophagoscope was used to remove a foreign object from the middle third of the esophagus, and the foreign object was successfully removed, which was an intact film-coated pill.

Through investigation, previously, patient T had a headache and high fever, so she asked her daughter to go to the pharmacy to buy some. The pharmacist had divided the medicine into doses. When her daughter emptied the bag of medicine into her hand, Ms. T did not observe and put it all in her mouth and drank it. And among them was 1 pill that was still in the film bag, leading to the above phenomenon.

The patient's health is now stable, but this is also a lesson to be more careful when taking medication.

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Foreign bodies in the digestive tract such as fish bones or food are dangerous gastrointestinal emergencies that can lead to complications that endanger the patient's life. To avoid foreign bodies in the digestive tract, each person needs to have scientific eating habits, avoiding the opportunity for foreign bodies to enter the digestive tract. When you encounter a situation where a foreign body enters the digestive tract in an unwanted way, or when there are suspicious symptoms (for children), you need to go to a medical facility immediately to be detected and have the fastest treatment before the disease progresses more seriously.

Doctor Vo Dong Anh - Head of ENT Department - Nghe An Northwest Regional General Hospital

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