A 4-year-old girl who has had stomach pains for 1 month. X-rays are frightening to see white spots 1 meter long before the doctor helped cut 61 buckyballs out of her stomach.
The ETtoday website reports that a 4-year-old girl from Jiaxing city Zhejiang Province, China, swallowed buckyballs or magnetic beads. her brother’s toy until the bucky balls suck together and squeezing the intestinal wall of the girl As a result, her digestive tract penetrated 14 holes.
Although doctors managed to remove 61 magnetic beads, the girl’s digestive system was badly damaged. And may be affected by intestinal adhesions or intestinal obstruction for life.
reportnews Stated that Xiaole (name of Samutti), a 4-year-old girl from Jiaxing City Zhejiang Province Suffering from abdominal pain for 1 month after undergoing treatment for gastroenteritis. at the local hospital
On Dec. 3, her parents took her to the Children’s Hospital affiliated to the Zhejiang University School of Medicine.
The doctor took x-rays for Xiao Le. And was shocked to see a white dot about 1 meter long in her digestive tract. At first, doctors thought This child has a bracelet in his stomach.
However, from the case of a foreign body in the gastrointestinal tract found at the hospital earlier. Doctors suspect that Xiaole has accidentally swallowed a magnetic pill commonly known as a “buckyball”.
Xiaole’s mother confirmed that there really was a magnetic bead at home. But Xiaole’s brother always played with it.
The hospital immediately operated on Xiao Le. And took out all 61 magnetic beads, which the woman’s surgery went well But she still had to. Continue to stay in the hospital.
Dr. Gao Zhigang, vice president of the hospital and director of the endoscopy center, said that although the buckyball is small, But it’s very magnetic.
He pointed out that Xiao Le did not swallow all the magnetic beads at the same time. But because the magnetic beads that enter the gastrointestinal tract at different times will attract each other. The intestinal wall is sandwiched between the two buckyballs. and the intestines will gradually penetrate
Dr. Gao Zhigang also said that “When I took it out, (intestine) was filled with 14 holes, which caused a lot of damage to this boy.”
He explains that although it can be treated But the damage was serious. High risk of intestinal adhesions and intestinal obstruction This pediatric patient is also the most pediatric patient with intestinal perforation ever seen.