It is understood that foreign bodies in the digestive tract are one of the most common accidental injuries in children.

At the end of the New Year, parents are often busy with social activities, and it is easy to ignore the baby, which makes it easy for the baby to swallow foreign matters. During the peak period, there will be five or six similar incidents in Qingyuan one day. It is understood that foreign bodies in the digestive tract are one of the most common accidental injuries for children, and the types of foreign bodies are various, including hair clips, necklaces, nail clippers, coins, and batteries. What should parents do when they find their children swallow foreign objects? Experts suggest that the best thing is to send the child to the hospital as soon as possible to the doctor for treatment, and parents should not handle it without authorization, so as not to cause more serious damage to the child or even endanger life due to the wrong method.

　　 Don't abuse emetics

Some parents will use emetics to try to make the baby vomit foreign matters out, but improper emesis will cause foreign matters to be inhaled into the trachea by mistake, which may lead to suffocation in serious cases, and directly lead to the death of the baby in a short time.

Do not use cathartics casually. Some parents think that since they can't vomit out, they can let the baby "pull out", so they will use cathartics for the baby, hoping that the foreign body can be discharged from the baby's intestines quickly. This method is not safe. Because there are too many kinds of foreign bodies, if the foreign bodies with tips and hooks, such as nails and braces, encounter the rapid peristalsis of intestinal tubes due to drug action, they are likely to hook onto the intestinal wall, or even cause perforation of the intestinal wall, which will lead to more serious problems.

When a baby swallows various kinds of foreign objects by mistake, it is necessary to be especially alert, because some babies will inhale these foreign objects into the airway, causing suffocation, which is more serious. Even if the baby is sent to the hospital immediately, the baby may have died of suffocation.

　　 Do not swallow forcibly

When fish bones and thin bones are stuck in the esophagus, some parents will force their babies to swallow them, hoping to swallow them.

In fact, when the fish bone is stuck, forced swallowing with rice balls can cause perforation of the esophagus, which can be life-threatening. If you stab the surrounding arteries, it will be even more dangerous. And after swallowing forcefully, it will increase the difficulty for later surgery.

Generally speaking, if the baby eats some small and smooth foreign bodies, parents can let the baby eat some foods rich in cellulose, such as leeks, celery, etc., to promote intestinal peristalsis and accelerate the excretion of foreign bodies.

If the ingested foreign body is small but heavy, such as the gold ring, it will sink to the lowest part of the stomach due to its overweight after entering the stomach, and generally cannot enter the intestinal tract and be discharged with the stomach peristalsis. Over time, it may cause damage to the gastric mucosa, bleeding or even perforation, so the person who swallowed gold must go to the hospital as soon as possible to ask a doctor for help to remove it.

As for other corrosive and sharp foreign bodies, we must go to the hospital in time and get them out with the help of doctors without delay. In addition, parents are reminded that some babies swallow batteries by mistake. Although the batteries are smooth in appearance and small in size, some batteries contain corrosive liquid. Once they are broken and released in the digestive tract, they will cause great damage to the baby, so they should also seek medical advice as soon as possible.