A child aged one year was admitted to the Mother and Child Institute with persistent cough that lasted for about two months. The baby underwent repeated treatment based on liquid antibiotic and cough syrup on the family doctor’s and the pediatrician’s instructions. But, as it was determined later, the child inhaled a piece of paper that obstructed the main left bronchus.
Contacted by IPN for details, spokesman for the Mother and Child Institute Maxim Cazacu said the mother communicated the child had had persistent cough and this was admitted to the Pneumology Section. As the cough didn’t pass, it was decided to do a chest X-ray.
The fibrobronchoscopy later showed there was a foreign object that obturated the main left bronchus. Bronchoscopy with a rigid tube was performed under general anesthesia and with mechanical ventilation so as to extract the foreign object. This was taken out by pieces and it turned out to be a fragment of paper. The fibrobronchoscopy repeated in five days didn’t reveal any other foreign objects and the child was discharged.
Specialists warn the children aged one to three years are most often involved in cases of inhaling of foreign objects. The parents or persons looking after minors are warned to be cautious and to permanently supervise the small children and to immediately see a doctor if they inhale something.
