Note when broken bones

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Mrs. Hien, a native of Binh Phuoc, is still in shock after having to go to Ho Chi Minh City to treat a fishbone choke. Bones are broken when eating sardines, instead of going to the hospital, she "listens to everyone to do what she wants", using one way after another to make the bones drift. After trying to swallow rice, orange peels and grapefruit peels with no effect, her family ran to find the person who gave birth backwards to ask for claws, acupressure, and then ran to treat the healer.

The bones not only didn't go down to her stomach as she wanted, but also penetrated deep into the throat area, causing her to be in severe pain. On the third day, spitting up blood, she went to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment. "Doctors concluded that my esophagus is severely damaged, if left for a long time, it will be very dangerous," said Ms. Hien.

Children's hospitals have also received many cases of children suffering from bone fractures, when they were taken to treatment, they suffered from laryngeal edema because their parents deliberately put their hands into the child's mouth or forced them to spit many times in order to expect the bones to fall out. .

According to specialist doctor 2 Lam Hoang Yen, Department of Ear - Nose - Throat 115 People's Hospital, bone choking can cause inflammation, pus, artery perforation, abscess at the puncture site, causing very serious complications. , there is a risk of vascular perforation. There are also cases where the bone enters the thorax, causing mediastinal abscess, pleural abscess; The mortality rate in these cases is very high.

One of the mistakes many people make is to apply home remedies and self-treat with folk remedies before going to medical facilities. Methods such as swallowing rice, swallowing some fruits, peels, leaves... are quite risky. Sometimes, with small, simple bones, this method can be cured, but in many cases swallowing aids only causes the bones to penetrate deeper into the esophagus, causing serious consequences.

When you have a bone fracture, you should pay attention to:

When you see signs of bone fracture:

- Immediately stop swallowing. The habit of trying to swallow when there is a foreign body in the neck can not make the bone slide down, but only make the bone penetrate deeper, causing injury.

- Try to vomit as soon as possible.

When choked:

- Do not eat anything to push the bones down.

- If bones are found embedded in visible positions such as the palatine nucleus, pharynx or posterior pharyngeal wall, medical forceps can be used to remove them.

- Hurry to see a doctor as soon as possible. Late admission will complicate treatment because it is difficult to locate the bone.

  Le Phuong - VnExpress