Medics save choking 10-month-old baby as incredible find lodged in her throat

15 November 2023 , 22:26

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Mari Carmen Sejami Rosas smiles with her daughter after the surgery (Image: Newsflash)

Medics saved a 10-month-old baby girl from choking to death after finding a crucifix lodged in the infant's throat.

Mari Carmen Sejami Rosas rushed her daughter to hospital after the tot wouldn't stop crying at the family home on Saturday, November 11. Doctors at Victor Lazarte Echegaray Hospital in Trujillo, Peru, were stunned when an X-ray showed the metal crucifix wedged in the baby's throat. Surgeons using an endoscope, an inspection device used to look deep into the body, were able to remove the crucifix, which was threatening to pierce the baby's oesophagus.

Luis Alberto Esteves Cabanillas, the gastroenterologist who led the operation, told local media: "We performed a therapeutic endoscopy. The baby swallowed a crucifix, we had to wait six hours for the stomach to be empty since she had drunk her milk.

Medics removed the crucifix from the baby's throat (Newsflash)

"After that, we proceeded with the complex intervention and everything went very well. This is thanks to the great professionals we have."

Mari, the relieved mum, said: "I'm very grateful. God has given us a chance at life and thanks to the doctors for this excellent work."

Baby boy has spent his life in hospital as doctors are 'scared' to discharge him

It comes after a baby miraculously survived after swallowing a 4cm long sewing pin. The nine-month-old boy underwent a two-hour operation and had the pin successfully removed from his lungs.

The incident happened in China when the boy's mother Ms Li was sewing at home and left her sewing kit on the table. The tot pulled the pins out of the box and started putting them inside his mouth, Ms Li told KanKan News .

The mum removed two sewing pins inside the boy's mouth but found one missing. She informed her husband and rushed to the nearby hospital with their son. They were told the operation would be too risky that doctors failed to retrieve the pins after visiting several hospitals.

Two days later, they went to Nanjing Children's Hospital where the boy received an X-ray scan at the respiratory department. Dr Zhao De Yu said: "The pin is stuck in the left bronchi and pierced through the tracheal wall and lodged in the right side of the lung."

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