In the summer, in order to preserve food in hot weather, the refrigerator freezer has become an indispensable thing, and the food has been kept fresh, but I never thought that the plastic box containing food will become a deadly hidden danger... Recently, a 70-year-old woman in Suzhou accidentally swallowed a disposable lunch box frozen after the rupture of the plastic shell, after surgery removed did not improve, transferred to the first Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University for treatment, the examination found: the elderly esophageal rupture caused by the chest infection serious to life-threatening!

The old man mistakenly swallowed the plastic sheet produced by the freezing of the lunch box, but did not improve after the successful removal

Ms. Wang (a pseudonym) who lives in Suzhou Park although she is over seventy years old, but her body is strong and strong, her character is strong, although she lives with her eldest daughter, she is not willing to let her daughter bear, take care of, usually, A person went to the street to buy food, cook...

Bubble rice is an indispensable way of cooking in Ms. Wang's life, usually the rest of the rice, the next day, Ms. Wang will make it into delicious bubble rice. Recently, as usual, Ms. Wang took out the overnight cold rice in a disposable lunch box from the refrigerator and prepared to make bubble rice. But no one expected that the disposable plastic lunch box became brittle after freezing, the bottom cracked, and a piece of plastic was poured into the pot along with the rice. When Wang ate, she did not notice the clear plastic sheet lurking in the rice. When Ms. Wang ate half of the time, feel something stuck in the throat, no matter how to swallow can not swallow, Ms. Wang went downstairs to find the eldest daughter. After learning about her mother's situation, the eldest daughter rushed her mother to the nearest hospital.

According to the introduction of Ms. Wang's second daughter, Ms. Wang did an emergency gastroscopy operation to remove esophageal foreign bodies in the hospital, when the doctor took out the foreign bodies, no one thought it would be a 3cm ~ 4cm plastic sheet! Ms. Wang's second daughter said: "I thought that after the esophageal foreign body was removed, the mother as long as the water anti-inflammatory will be fine, but lived in the hospital for a week did not improve, has been feeling chest tightness, chest pain, there is no way, we can only transfer the mother to the first Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University."

multi-department linkage empyema removal and drainage, the old man turned to safety

Later, Ms. Wang transferred to the first Affiliated hospital of Soochow University, after listening to the chief complaint, deputy chief physician Xu Chun said: "In the emergency consultation, the most common foreign bodies in the esophagus are chicken bones and fish bones, plastic sheets stuck in the esophagus, this is the first time I encountered."

After further observation of the patient's condition and analysis of the CT report, Xu Chun said: "The patient's current symptoms are caused by esophageal rupture, which has led to mediastinal infection and chest infection. If the patient comes back later, the infection focus may cause septic shock or corrode the aorta leading to aortic rupture and fatal massive bleeding."

Experts then performed thoracoscopic empyema removal and drainage for Ms. Wang. The operation lasted nearly 4 hours. After the combined treatment of thoracic surgery, operating room, anesthesiology, and cardiac and vascular surgery, Ms. Wang's operation went smoothly. Wang is currently in stable condition and was discharged from hospital on July 26 after recovering.

Doctor reminded: should understand correctly the treatment of esophageal foreign bodies, must not be taken lightly. By drinking vinegar, even swallowing dried rice, steamed bread and other traditional methods to send foreign bodies to the stomach are not desirable, but also very dangerous. Because once the esophagus is pierced, it may cause mediastinal infection, and in serious cases, it may damage the surrounding important large blood vessels, the heart, and the trachea, which may be life-threatening.

If accidentally swallowed foreign bodies, should be fully paid attention to, to immediately stop eating, water and pharyngeal action, as soon as possible to the hospital.

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