Original title: Choking caused coughing, expectoration, difficulty breathing…
A small corn kernel accidentally entered the trachea to cause trouble
The doctor reminded: If a foreign body choked into the trachea, seek medical attention immediately
People who eat whole grains will inevitably have a headache. In addition to illness, there are also some unexpected events that will bring harm to health.
Recently, Ms. Zou was tortured and breathless because a small corn kernel choked into her trachea. Finally, she went to the hospital for an operation and regained her comfortable breathing.
The doctor reminded that unexpected situations like Ms. Zou’s aspiration of foreign bodies should not be ignored, because if the situation is serious, it may lead to suffocation or death.
Ms. Zou said that one day, she felt like she was choking on something and didn’t care at the time. However, later I found that I was always coughing and expectorating sputum, and the symptoms were not relieved. When I went to the Daqing People’s Hospital for examination, I already felt that it was very difficult to breathe.
Li Chundi, deputy director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, examined Ms. Zou. The results of lung CT showed her right trachea stenosis. Director Li made a preliminary diagnosis that there was a foreign body in Ms. Zou’s trachea, and it was inferred that it was likely that the foreign body entered the trachea and caused inflammation in the surrounding tissue, blocking the bronchial tube and making her breathing uncomfortable.
After further diagnosis, the doctor decided to perform surgery for Ms. Zou to remove the foreign body.
Yang Yongshan, deputy director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and head of bronchoscopy, told reporters that the longer the foreign body in the trachea remains, the more complications will be brought about, and the more critical the patient’s condition will be.
After communicating with Ms. Zou’s family, Yang Yongshan decided to perform bronchoscopy for foreign body removal for Ms. Zou.
During the operation, it was found that the foreign body incarcerated in Ms. Zou’s right lung was very small. Yang Yongshan took out the foreign body completely in a very short period of time with his skillful technique and steady manipulation. Corn kernels of X0.8cm size.
The corn kernels were taken out, and Ms. Zou’s breathing became easier.
Ms. Zou’s experience also reminds people that they must pay attention to the situation of foreign bodies choking into the trachea in daily life.
Yang Yongshan told reporters that when people are talking, laughing or crying, if there is food in their mouths, they are prone to aspiration. Lung infection, severe suffocation or death.
Yang Yongshan reminded the public that if you clearly feel that there is a foreign body choking in the trachea, especially if there is a sharp foreign body, you should go to the hospital immediately. Wear vital organs.
Daqing Daily All Media Reporter Ling Rui Photo courtesy of People’s Hospital