Mumbai doctors extract LED bulb from seven-month-old’s lung
Doctors at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in Parel,Mumbai,India extracted an LED bulb from the lung of a seven-month-old girl who had swallowed
it while playing with a toy mobile phone. The bulb was two-centimetre in
diametre.
Ariba Khan, whose family is from Chiplun in Ratnagiri
district, had to wait for a week before the doctors could perform a
bronchoscopy to remove the object as physicians in Ratnagiri couldn’t diagnose
why she had persistent cough and fever. Unaware of the incident, her parents
took her to doctors in Ratnagiri to treat the cough and fever.
“The parents initially thought that Ariba had
swallowed a thread or a small part of a toy. They took her to a local physician
who couldn’t diagnose the condition. Her condition deteriorated within a week,”
said doctors from the hospital. After being advised by relatives, the family
admitted the child to Wadia Hospital. Dr Divya Prabhat, head of ENT department
at the hospital, said an X-Ray report revealed that there was an object in the
right lung. Ariba was put on antibiotics to prevent and control the infection.
“A primary bronchoscopy that the lung was full of
granulation tissues (tissue and microscopic blood vessels that form on the
surfaces of a wound during the healing process). The tissues were hiding the
object, thus making its removal difficult ,” said Dr Prabhat.
The doctors continued with intravenous course of
antibiotics and steroids for two days to clear the infection and granulations.
On the third day, another bronchoscopy was performed, when the bulb became
visible inside the lung.
“Within two minutes this object, which initially
looked like a strand of wire, was removed using forceps. To our surprise the
object was a two-centimetre in diametre,” Dr Prabhat added.
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