Girl that had swallowed a nut saved in Holguín Children Hospital

Thanks to the joint work of a multidisciplinary team from Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja children hospital in Holguín, a girl who had swallowed a nut was saved after the successfull extraction of that foreign body from her esophagus.

On Monday night, the patient from the municipality of Banes, was out of danger when the metalic object she had swallowed by accident, and lodged in the cervical esophagus, was taken out by the skillful medical team from the Children Hospital.

Dr. Alberto Ibarra Batista, a specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, said that after performing the x-rays, the surgical procedure was carried out with favorable results in about an hour, to keep safe the patient, who now is evolving satisfactorily in that health care center.

Dr. Ibarra explained that her esophagus was very traumatized, but not perforated, for which reason, under endoscopic vision, a nasogastric tube was placed so that she could eat until she finally gets well.

Regarding this event and other similar ones that have been treated at the Pediatric Hospital, the specialist emphasized that “the best advice to the children’s families is to raise prevention to avoid these cases, which in most cases have a happy outcome, but the patient may become complicated”.

“It is necessary to be careful about children’s environment, by keeping out the reach of children any object that could, by accident, be swallowed, and besides objects in the mouth, attention must be paid if they are in the nose or ear, which are the most frequent incidents we deal with”, said Dr. Alberto Ibarra Batista.

With information by Lourdes Pichs – Ahora / Translated by Radio Angulo