A two-year-old girl escaped death when a lollipop stick that had been in her stomach for six months punctured her intestines.
The Syrian girl was taken to the hospital after she lost consciousness. The doctors said it was too cold to touch, she said.
His family explained that he had complained of abdominal pain the previous day, vomited up to eight times, and had a fever.
They also said that their unidentified daughter swallowed a lollipop stick six months ago.
2.75 inches (7 cm) The cane blocked his windpipe and he couldn’t breathe, but the doctors found no reason to panic at the time and told his parents to check his stool.
The two-year-old girl pierced her intestines and nearly died six months after swallowing the lollipop stick.
doctors a Aleppo University Hospital gave the unconscious girl an ultrasound to determine the cause of her condition.
An accumulation of fluid was observed in the space between his intestines and other organs – this is a clear sign of perforation of the intestines.
Surgeons drained the fluids before surgery to relieve pressure and stabilize blood flow.
A follow-up procedure in which doctors cut through her abdomen revealed that the lost lollipop stick had punctured her ileus, the last part of the small intestine.
The hollow rod was removed and they sutured the incision in the intestine.
He was followed closely in the intensive care unit for several days before doctors discharged him.
The girl had fully recovered on April 11, when her case was published in a scientific journal.
They said he narrowly escaped complications that could have killed him if not treated properly.
They wrote in the journal: “Perforation of the ileum from ingestion of a foreign body is a rare and life-threatening complication that requires surgery.
‘In our case, the ingested object that caused the injury was a hollow plastic rod 7 cm long and 2 mm in diameter.
“To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of ileal perforation in children due to swallowed lollipop sticks.”
The girl’s case was reported in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports †
Source: Daily Mail
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