Coimbatore: Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) doctors gave a new lease of life to a two-year-old boy, who choked on a peanut.The toddler had put a peanut in his mouth while playing in his house in Tirupur a few days ago.
It entered his windpipe and got stuck deep in his left bronchus.
After initial attempts to get the nut out, his family rushed him to a private hospital from where they were referred to CMCH.CMCH doctors decided to perform an emergency bronchoscopic removal of the foreign body under general anesthesia, said dean Dr A Nirmala.
“Head of ENT department Dr A R Ali Sultan, along with associate professor Dr V Saravanan and assistant professor Dr M Nallasivam, performed a rigid bronchoscopy under anesthesia to remove the object.
They found the object obstructing the left main bronchus.
If the procedure had not been done immediately, it would have led to lung collapse, respiratory failure and death of the child, who is now postoperatively well,” said the dean.The dean advised parents not to allow children play with small objects like stone, areca nut and groundnut or make them laugh while eating.
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