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Swallowed Items Stuck In The Throat / Esophagus

WhistlingJack

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I don't think there's a thread on this subject, so here goes...

One gulp too many

December 31, 2006 12:00am

Article from: Sunday Herald Sun




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SOME people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth - but one woman literally got one lodged firmly in her gullet.

The 26-year-old Sydney woman accidentally swallowed a teaspoon during a laughing attack while eating spaghetti.

She is understood to have gagged reflexively, but by then it was too late.

Doctors were flabbergasted by the accident when she arrived at Canterbury Hospital in Sydney's south-west.

An X-ray and gastroscopy revealed the 15cm implement stuck in her oesophagus at the top of her stomach.

Numerous medics examined the images and offered advice on how to remove the spoon, with most recommending surgery to cut it out.

But Dr Bernard Beldholm, an advanced trainee in general surgery, and Dr Alice Lee, a gastroenterologist, wanted to spare her the trauma of invasive surgery.

They eventually managed to remove it manually - albeit "with great difficulty".

The woman, who can't be named because of patient confidentiality, was placed under general anaesthetic.

In a delicate procedure, which took an hour and a half, they eased it out of her throat and mouth.

© Herald and Weekly Times.
 
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Trampoline boy swallows £2 coin

A nine-year-old boy had a £2 coin surgically removed from his throat after he swallowed it while trampolining in his garden.
Rory Davidson had been holding the money between his teeth when he attempted a back flip - and the coin became lodged in his throat.

He was taken to hospital and underwent an emergency operation.

The surgeon said the coin was the biggest object he had ever removed from a child's throat.

Rory had been playing in the garden of his home in Westhill, near Aberdeen, shortly before he was due to set off on holiday with his parents. He was handed the coin as a holiday gift by a neighbour.

His father Mike said: "Unfortunately instead of putting the coin in one of the eight pockets in his jeans - I did actually count them later - he decided to hold it in his mouth and do a back flip.

"The first I knew about it was when he came running up to me in tears. I couldn't understand what he was saying at first but eventually realised he had swallowed something.

"When I put my fingers down his throat I could feel the coin. I tried to remove it myself and even held him upside down but it wouldn't budge."

Mr Davidson put Rory in his car and drove him the short distance to the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, where doctors took an x-ray of his throat.

He added: "You could clearly see the coin lodged in his throat. Thankfully he was able to breathe.

"Rory was given a full anaesthetic while the surgeon fished out the coin using equipment with a camera on it. He said it was the biggest thing he had ever seen lodged in a boy's throat."

Rory, a primary five pupil at Elrick Primary School, was kept in overnight before being allowed home the next morning.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/nor ... 966041.stm
 
Diner uses scissors as a toothpick - and swallows them
April 03, 2009

"A DINER tried to use a pair of nail scissors as a toothpick but swallowed them when he laughed at a friend's joke and they stuck in his throat.

Kong Lin, 27, tried to cough up the clippers but they skewered the inside of his throat because the points were facing upwards.

Doctors managed to remove the scissors in a 30-minute operation under local anaesthetic in Putian, eastern China, The Sun reports.

"When he came in, his face was twisted, pale, and sweating," said surgeon Chen Wei.

"The patient was having difficulty swallowing, and blood was mixed with his saliva."

"The entire surgery took around 30 minutes. Luckily Mr Lin does not have much of a wound left inside his throat.""

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 62,00.html
 
A DINER tried to use a pair of nail scissors as a toothpick but swallowed them when he laughed at a friend's joke and they stuck in his throat.
This just illustrates the dangers of having friends! :twisted:
 
We have a thread on the legendary South American candiru - a small spiny catfish alleged to invade genitals.

Here's a 'WTF' story about a drunken Dutchman who swallowed another, larger spiny catfish as part of a drinking game. It didn't end well, but he survived.

NOTE: Extra moron points are due this guy, because there's video (not included / linked here) of the futile things he tried before having to be taken to the ER after an hour or so had passed.

A Drunk Man Swallowed a Live, Venomous, Spiny Catfish. Here's What Happened.

There are all sorts of drinking traditions. Some people sing songs as they down their alcohol. Others dance to thumping music. Somewhere in the vicinity of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, a group of young men, apparently inspired by the American television show "Jackass," got in the habit of capping off their boozing by swallowing live fish.

This, it turns out, is a bad idea. Especially in the event that the fish have evolved to fight back.

According to a recent case report published on Jan. 17 in the journal Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports, the young men typically swallowed live goldfish out of their home aquarium — small, squishy creatures that don't put up much of a fight. The fun stopped on April 3, 2016, when one of the men tried to take their tradition a bit further by swallowing a bronze catfish (Corydoras aeneus), a popular aquarium fish with some powerful natural defenses. ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the night ended with the 28-year-old man in the emergency room, where puzzled doctors carefully removed the spiny fish from the man's throat. ...

Most animals know better than to eat bronze catfish, said Kees Moeliker, a director at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum who reviewed the catfish remains after doctors removed them from the man's throat. That's for a good reason: Their cute 2- to 3-inch bodies (5 to 8 centimeters) are defended with spines, mounted on their pectoral fins. When the fish get stressed out — say, for example, when they're being swallowed by a predator — those spines become erect and can pump venom into the mouths of their attackers. ...

"This is definitely in the top three of weirdest medical cases I’ve encountered," said case report co-author Dr. Linda Benoist, a medical resident at Rotterdam’s University Medical Center who treated the patient. Benoist told Live Science that she had been aware that the fish-swallowing game was a "bizarre" tradition among some young people in the area. ...
FULL STORY (With Photos): https://www.livescience.com/64588-catfish-swallowed-stuck.html
 
We have a thread on the legendary South American candiru - a small spiny catfish alleged to invade genitals.

Here's a 'WTF' story about a drunken Dutchman who swallowed another, larger spiny catfish as part of a drinking game. It didn't end well, but he survived.

NOTE: Extra moron points are due this guy, because there's video (not included / linked here) of the futile things he tried before having to be taken to the ER after an hour or so had passed.


FULL STORY (With Photos): https://www.livescience.com/64588-catfish-swallowed-stuck.html
The show has the correct name. As does anybody trying to repeat these stunts.
 
This is one helluva medical horror story in terms of both (a) what the patient had to endure and (b) the length of time during which he repeatedly had to be treated.

A Man's Dentures Were Stuck in His Throat for More Than a Week

A U.K. man's dentures fell down his throat during surgery and were stuck there for more than a week before they were discovered, according to a new report. ...

The case highlights the dangers of leaving dentures in a patient's mouth during any surgery that requires general anesthesia, according to the report, published today (Aug. 12) in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

The 72-year-old man had undergone surgery to remove a harmless lump in his abdominal wall tissue, the report said. Six days after the surgery, he went to the emergency room (ER) with symptoms including pain in his throat, difficulty swallowing and a cough that produced blood. He told doctors that he hadn't been able to swallow any solid foods since his surgery. ...

At first, based on results from a chest X-ray, doctors thought the man had a respiratory infection. They didn't find any problems with his throat on an initial examination, and they suspected his pain was a side effect of having a tube down his throat during surgery. Doctors prescribed the man antibiotics and sent him home.

But two days later, the man was back in the ER. His throat pain was worse, and he was still coughing up blood. His voice was hoarse, and he told doctors he hadn't been able to swallow any of the medications they had given him. The man was also feeling short of breath, particularly when lying down.

He was admitted to the hospital, and doctors suspected he had a severe chest infection. But when they performed a procedure to look at his throat and voice box,

they saw a metal, "semicircular object" lying across his vocal cords that had caused swelling and blistering.

When doctors told the man what they saw, he mentioned that his dentures had been lost during his surgery. This prompted doctors to perform an X-ray of the patient's neck, which revealed the missing dentures — consisting of three false teeth attached to a metal roof plate — stuck in his throat. The man had apparently inhaled, or aspirated, his dentures during the surgery.

He underwent emergency surgery to remove the dentures and was released from the hospital six days later.

But that wasn't the end of the man's medical saga. Over the next several weeks, he returned to the hospital four times with bouts of bleeding in his throat and coughing that produced blood. Doctors eventually discovered that the man had a torn artery in his neck near the area where the dentures had caused tissue damage. He needed another emergency surgery, along with several blood transfusions. Six weeks later, the man appeared to be healing well and didn't need to return to the hospital.

This isn't the first case of it's kind. Earlier this year, a report in the journal Case Reports in Surgery described a 50-year-old man in Turkey who apparently swallowed his dentures during sedation before surgery. And a 1976 report in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia described the case of a patient in Austria who died after inhaling dentures when a breathing tube was placed down the individual's throat.

SOURCE (With X-Ray Image):
https://www.livescience.com/dentures-stuck-throat-surgery.html
 
I know, personally, of a woman, who when she went to have her mouth looked at they discovered that she had false teeth, nothing weird about that?, the skin of the gums had grown over the top of them, it said in her folder that she had false teeth, but nobody had ever seen any, she had to go to hospital to have the gums cut to get the teeth out
 
I know, personally, of a woman, who when she went to have her mouth looked at they discovered that she had false teeth, nothing weird about that?, the skin of the gums had grown over the top of them, it said in her folder that she had false teeth, but nobody had ever seen any, she had to go to hospital to have the gums cut to get the teeth out

Who else is enjoying lunch?

;)

maximus otter
 
Your mother taught you to not eat in a rush and to chew your food before swallowing.

If you didn't listen, you may have to face the wrath of the Mother's Day cupcake ornament!

'Mother's Day' Cupcake Topper Stuck in Man's Throat for a Week

Scarfing down a cupcake left one man with more than a sugar high. He downed a Mother's Day dessert so fast he failed to notice that he had swallowed the 2-inch (5 centimeters) cupcake topper.

The topper, which read "Happy Mother's Day," was lodged in his throat for a week before doctors discovered it, according to a new report of the case.

The 60-year-old man went to the emergency room (ER) after he developed a sore throat, fever, difficulty swallowing and a feeling that something was stuck in his throat, according to the report, published Oct. 10 in The Journal of Emergency Medicine. The man told doctors his symptoms had started about a week prior to his ER visit, after he hurriedly ate a cupcake on Mother's Day, the authors, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wrote in the report. ...

The man had previously visited a different ER for his throat discomfort, but he was discharged after an X-ray of his neck showed no abnormalities.

But at Johns Hopkins, doctors ordered a CT scan, which showed "a 5-cm foreign body" in his esophagus, they wrote.

The man underwent an upper endoscopy, a procedure in which doctors use a thin, flexible tube with a camera to look in the esophagus.

Doctors saw a "pink foreign body" covered in food debris that had caused a small tear in the man's esophagus, the report said. During the endoscopy, doctors repaired the tear and removed the foreign body, which they discovered was a plastic cupcake topper.

ER doctors commonly see patients who have swallowed foreign bodies. However, in most cases, the foreign object passes out of the body on its own — fewer than 20% of cases require removal by doctors, the report said. ...

FULL STORY (WITH X-RAY & PHOTO IMAGES):
https://www.livescience.com/cupcake-topper-stuck-in-mans-throat.html
 
This baby had an ornament hook stuck in her esophagus for an unknown number of months, causing infections, seizures, and brain lesions.
Ornament hook stuck in infant's throat for months led to seizures, brain lesions

A 10-month-old child had an ornament hook stuck in her esophagus for several months before anyone discovered it, according to a new report of the case.

The hook tore a hole in her esophagus, which caused an infection that spread to her brain and led to seizures, the report said. Fortunately, the child recovered after the hook was removed. ...

FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/infant-ornament-hook-brain-lesions.html
 
An Egyptian man had a fish become stuck in his throat, apparently after having placed the fish in his mouth while he was reaching for another fish.
Egyptian man recovering after doctors remove live fish from his throat

An Egyptian fisher is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery to remove a live fish that had become lodged in his throat and nearly suffocated him.

The 40-year-old man arrived at the Beni Suef Specialized Hospital, which is located about 150 kilometres south of Cairo.

Medical staff who attended to the patient said he was unable to speak and was experiencing shortness of breath when he was admitted. ...

Local media reports claim that the fish got stuck at the entrance of the man’s windpipe when he tried to hold the fish in his mouth while attempting to catch a second fish by hand.

Following the short procedure, it was reported the man was recovering and being monitored by staff in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

SOURCE: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/egypti...rs-remove-live-fish-from-his-throat-1.5184117
 
In a way the most chilling bit about this man's experience is the fact he couldn't feel the object lodged in his esophagus.
Music to my fears: Man swallows earbud while sleeping

... Worcester resident Brad Gauthier, who detailed his bizarre experience in a Facebook post, went to bed Monday listening to music. He woke up Tuesday, shoveled snow for about an hour, and then went inside to take a sip of water. But the liquid wouldn’t go down, and he had to lean over to drain it from his throat.

Gauthier also noticed he was missing one of his two wireless earbuds, which he said typically uses as he falls asleep. ...

Gauthier’s son suggested that perhaps his father had swallowed the earbud, which is exactly what an X-ray at a local emergency clinic revealed. The small plastic device was lodged in his lower esophagus.

Gauthier said he never experienced more than minor discomfort. He told NBC Boston 10 that he wanted to share his experience to caution others not to sleep with their headphones.

SOURCE: https://apnews.com/article/music-massachusetts-4a4a49957837735c79911c2be55aaa54
 

Man gets statue of Hindu God stuck in his throat after drinking holy water


Doctors found a miniature statue of a Hindu God in a man's throat - after he swallowed it while drinking holy water, which doesn't sound like a divine situation.

SwallowedFigurine-1.jpg

An X-ray was carried out after the patient went to his local surgery complaining of throat problems.

And, incredibly, the scan revealed the outline of a small figure - which was later found to be a model of the deity Krishna.

It later emerged that the man had swallowed the figure during his morning routine, which sees him drink holy water with a Krishna statue immersed in it.

SwallowedFigurine-2.jpg

But, on Tuesday (June 21), he mistakenly swallowed the model - and ended up needing an endoscopy.

https://www.indy100.com/news/hindu-god-statue-stuck-throat

maximus otter
 
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