In the afternoon of 7/8, the Department of Gastroenterology - Hospital of Hai Duong Medical Technical University received a very special case, especially female patient V.T.O, 46 years old, went to the examination because of abdominal pain due to excessive swallowing the table.Brush your tooth when brushing your teeth after eating.

Immediately after receiving and assessing the preliminary status of doctors quickly conducted endoscopy to pick up foreign objects.At the time of admission, the new patient was full, the stomach had food, so it could not be anesthetized because it would face some risks due to the stimulating patient, the size of the foreign object, ...

However, after the urgent working time, trying, the endoscopic team has successfully picked up an object of about 20cm long as a long brush in the stomach.

MSc.BS Vu Cong Danh - Head of Gastroenterology Department said.“This is a rather rare case;The object is large, hard, long, the disease is recovered to eat, so when performing the laparoscopy procedure, the doctor must have a lot of experience, perform it must be very careful and meticulous.The procedure has been successfully and safely performed ”.

Doctors recommend that the gastrointestinal object is one of the common emergency, often encountered as bones, bamboo toothpicks, pellets, etc.Early treatment, otherwise, it will cause severe complications such as ulcers, bleeding, creating abscesses, worse, causing ventricular perforation, stomach perforation, ...

Therefore, to prevent gastrointestinal objects, you should practice the habit of eating slowly, chewing thoroughly, limiting talking, joking when eating, careful with meats that have not removed bones, abandoned the habit of sucking, or as inThis case should be careful when brushing.

As soon as the object is discovered that the foreign object should not try to perform swallowing or spitting movements, it is necessary to immediately go to the nearest medical facility that can endoscopy to pick up the object to be handled in time and safely.

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