Red dates have the functions of nourishing blood, nourishing the spleen and stomach, etc.
It is well-liked for its high quality and low price.
Frequently It is used to make jujube tea, jujube porridge or soup.
However,
Once the jujube pit is swallowed by mistake, it can be called “step by step shock”,
All the way through the esophagus, stomach, small intestine,
The large intestine and the anus and other levels.
Some people joked,
Jujube pits can pierce the gastrointestinal tract and self-harm by swallowing nails.
It is not uncommon to accidentally swallow a date pit.
When some date pits are swallowed,
The person who eats them immediately knows,
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Some were mixed in the food,
unwittingly slipped into the stomach.
Recently, Nanxiang The radiology department of the hospital encountered two cases of abdominal pain and intestinal perforation caused by mistakenly swallowing jujube pits.
Case 1
Ms. Zhang, 57, came to Nanxiang Hospital because of abdominal pain and discomfort for 1 day. At that time, it was found that a small spindle-shaped high-density shadow was seen in the gastric antrum, both ends were as thin as needle tips, pierced into the gastric wall, and the local gastric mucosa was edema and thickened. When Liu Xiaokun, deputy chief physician of the radiology department, asked her if she had eaten red dates recently, Ms. Zhang’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Liu Xiaokun: You Have you accidentally swallowed the jujube core while drinking porridge, and now the jujube core is pierced into the stomach wall, causing local edema and inflammation, which is the reason for your abdominal pain.
Ms. Zhang: I ate porridge made of red dates the day before. You can see that. What should I do now?
Liu Xiaokun: You don’t have to be nervous. I’ll have a CT scan tomorrow to see if the jujube core has moved down the bowel or is excreted. Be wary of gastrointestinal perforation.
The next day, Ms. Zhang came as scheduled. CT found that the jujube pits had disappeared, and the abdominal pain and gastric wall edema were significantly relieved. Ms. Zhang was finally relieved.
Case 2
The 66-year-old grandmother Xun is a patient with fibromatosis, and there is an intracranial parasellar growth. Tumor, the response is slightly slow, and the mouth is usually not good. One night, she drank porridge made with red dates. The next morning, she had some pain and discomfort in her stomach. She suddenly suffered severe pain in the lower left abdomen near dinner. Her family immediately sent her to the hospital. Emergency CT examination revealed a fusiform foreign body shadow in the left lower abdominal descending colon with sharp ends, puncturing the intestinal wall, and the gas in the intestinal cavity was freed to the outside of the intestine.
This is together A typical case of intestinal perforation caused by accidental ingestion of jujube pits.
Grandma Xun received gastrointestinal decompression, anti-infection and other treatments, and the abdominal pain was relieved slightly. The CT scan revealed that the colonic foreign body and the gas around the bowel had disappeared. Dr. Liu Xiaokun said that fortunately, the jujube pits were successfully excreted, avoiding surgery.
But a small jujube pit made Grandma Xun’s family go back and forth for ten days, which was really annoying.
Introduced by Dr. Liu Xiaokun,
Since practicing medicine, I have seen many swallowed jujube seeds by mistake report.
In mild cases, stabbing the gastrointestinal tract causes abdominal pain and excreted by itself.
In severe cases, it may lead to perforation of the gastrointestinal tract and requires surgical treatment.
What’s more Puncture of a large blood vessel is life-threatening.
To this end,
He and technician Sun Yan also studied the CT imaging features of jujube nucleus.
In the CT image, the date pits were Spindle-shaped, with a cavity or gas in the center, and ends as thin as pinpoints. Recognizing these signs will help physicians to accurately detect jujube pits in the digestive tract of patients with acute abdomen, and provide imaging evidence for diagnosis and treatment.
Physician Reminder
When the general public is eating red dates,
< p>Be careful not to swallow the dates whole.
When elderly friends eat,
It is best to separate the jujube pits in advance.
If the jujube pit is swallowed by mistake,
It is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment,
trace the trace of the jujube pit,
symptom treatment,
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Avoid causing more serious consequences.
Source: Nanxiang Hospital, Jiading District
