2 year-old child from inland lived for a month with pumpkin pip stuck in the lungs. In already serious condition yesterday was brought to Clinic for ear, nose and throat.
The team for interventional endoscopy performed the intervention, which lasted for half an hour, and managed to take out the foreign body. As they say, the child will stay at the Clinic until Monday when another control will be done.
The agony of this child began 30 days ago when parents gave him pumpkin seeds. It started to cough and then began the intense cough. For a one month drank strong antibiotics for coughing. Had wheezing, and as they say doctors, on the x-ray they could not see the seed stuck in the lungs. The physicians who treated the child said that nothing was wrong with the child.
An interesting fact is that in almost all major cities in the country has equipment for interventional endoscopy. But now these interventions with high risk are only done at the Clinic for ear,nose and throat. Doctors once again with reports and recommendations to parents, to be careful what they give to the children. At this clinic there is variety of foreign bodies extracted from young children.
A few months ago, the same team that did the intervention yesterday barely rescued 7-year-old child from Kichevo who during the play swallowed the whistle, which was stuck in the lungs. A year ago life they have saved the one-year child, who during the game with bean seeds got one of them ended up in the windpipe. The doctors are warning that unless they intervene on time, such cases can be fatal.
In some developed countries there is a law that parents be punished for such cases, considering how parental neglect.