"Be careful with small things," parents are always told. "Do not leave him alone," "Attentive to moments of silence, it will be then when he does the worst things," he adds. And they have an incredible ease to do things that they should not, the result of an almost inexhaustible curiosity, and among them is that of put things that should not be in your mouth.
This is what happened to a 16-month-old boy who went to his parents complaining that he could not swallow well. They suspected that something had been swallowed and taken to the emergency room, where they found SpongeBob, face down, smiling and tongue out.
It was the sister's pendant
Everything was an oversight as can happen to anyone, because what the child swallowed was part of her sister's pendant. And also, a pendant with a considerable size. Little could parents think that it would end there, and that is why it is important from a very young age to teach them what they can and cannot put in their mouths. Food yes, SpongeBob no.
When they arrived at the hospital, when in doubt, they took two x-rays, one in profile and the other in front. Dr. Ghofran Ageely, of the King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, first looked at the profile and observed a very fine object in her esophagus (take the opportunity to keep an eye on the molars already formed, waiting to climb towards the gums , which is very curious):
This, of course, made him think that it would be a very fine object. However, when he looked at the radiograph, he was surprised. "SpongeBob!" He shouted, and then froze for a moment watching the details of the image. SpongeBob smiling, tongue out and all possible details. They extracted the character from the child's esophagus without too many complications and could go home.
Curious but frequent
It is a curious case, being SpongeBob and looking so good, but seeing children with foreign bodies ingested is very common, unfortunately. Children swallow or in the worst case inhale small objects and then suffer the consequences, which can sometimes be fatal.
That is why it is always recommended that children under 3 do not play with things that fit in the hole of a toilet paper roll. You will say that it is a very large diameter, but it is that the SpongeBob of the images does not seem precisely tiny, so it is better to keep it in mind just in case.
Photos | Dr Ghofran Ageely, Radiopaedia.org
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