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Foreign body (in the digestive tract)

It’s very easy for a child to ingest a foreign body. The symptoms are sometimes asymptomatic and the body is easily excreted. Other times it may cause dysphagia, anorexia, anxious state, regurgitation, coughing, choking, hemorrhage.

In case of complications, possible signs of shock may appear, and in this case it is necessary to ensure patency of the airway. Foreign bodies that are not expelled without difficulty can be removed by urgent endoscopy or if not urgent, removal can be waited for up to 7-10 days.

Source: Mediserve‘s Medical Emergencies in Pediatrics.

Foreign body (in the respiratory tract)

Children between 6 months and 3 years of age often get find themselves struggling with a foreign body in the respiratory tract. Symptoms are spasmodic coughing and sudden stridor in both inspiratory and expiratory.

A chest X-ray in inhalation and maximum exhalation and a fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy should be performed. It is important to remove the foreign body.

Source: Mediserve‘s Medical Emergencies in Pediatrics.

Suction of a foreign body

This is an event Very common in pediatric age. It is manifested by coughing and reduced vesicular murmur. The medical history is usually indicative, along with the picture that can occur:

  • With little symptomatology In the presence of more or less severe impairment of consciousness
  • Inability to phonation and breathing, hypersalivation and inspiratory stridor if the body foreign is food, which obstructs the airway.

The diagnostic approach is avails from the chest X-ray in lateral projection and inhalation and exhalation. Only in 20% of cases can the foreign body be observed, but The objective of the investigation is to understand what the consequences are functional.

Therapy

The therapy consists of. By:

  • Foreign body removal
  • Administration of antibiotics, in case of obstruction pneumonia
  • Extemporaneous intervention and implementation of the Heimlich maneuver in indispensable cases
  • Should aspiration not be an accident, prevention of a recurrence is important.

Source: Medical Guard Handbook edited by Piercarlo Salari (Mediserve)

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