RIMS warns parents against rising cases of choking due to small toys in Jharkhand

RIMS warns parents against rising cases of choking due to small toys in Jharkhand

RAJ KUMAR

Ranchi, Oct.22: Doctors of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) have warned parents of kids against the latter’s  access to small toys, button battery, peanuts, gram, small whistles, nails, hair pin, safety pin saying they cause choking of breathing tube and alimentary canal.

The warning was given after doctors observed children with choked breathing tubes and alimentary canal have started coming in big numbers in the tertiary care hospital from different parts of the state for advance treatment.

“We must have treated 40 cases in the last one month while the average is 8 per month,” a RIMS doctor associated with the pediatric surgery department said.

“On October 20 we operated upon a toy whistle choked in the breathing tube of a 13-yr-old boy, Danial Soy, a resident of Sonua block in West Singhbhum district. He was referred from Chaibasa Sadar hospital after doctors there could not remove the whistle trapped for last 20 days causing cough with bleeding,” the doctor said.

RIMS spokesperson Dipendra Kumar Sinha confirmed the fact saying paediatrics department head Dr Hirendra Birua, accompanied by other doctors including Dr Shyam Sunder Sahu, Dr Abhishek Kumar Singh, Dr Shishir Kumar, Dr Priya Shalini Lakra and Dr Akram Jia besides the anesthesia team played a vital role in the operation which was done by Bronchoscopy method. The whistle had entered in the breathing tube when boy was whistling the whistle he got from a biscuit packet.”

“The case was challenging as the whistle could not be detected by X-ray,” spokesperson Sinha said.

Dr Birua said: “A button battery can cause burning of breathing tube and alimentary canal. Apart from this choking is dangerous.”