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Doctors remove LED bulb of toy phone from infant's respiratory tract in Ahmedabad
A nine-month-old Junagadh-based boy, who had accidentally swallowed an LED bulb attached to a toy phone, was successfully treated at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and the object successfully retrieved from his body, said people familiar with the matter on Saturday.
The child, identified as Mohammad, son of Tabassum and Juned Yusuf, a carpenter, had been coughing for the previous fortnight, following which he was taken to a pediatrician in Junagadh, said his parents.
During an X-ray, the doctors found an object lodged in his respiratory tract.
The doctors recommended the boy's parents, residents of Mangrol in Junagadh, to a private hospital in Rajkot but since the cost proved prohibitive, the parents took him to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. The child was immediately admitted to the Pediatric Surgery Department of the civil hospital on June 3.
Head of the Pediatric Surgery Department, Dr Rakesh Joshi, and Dr Nilesh from the Anesthesia department along with their team successfully conducted a bronchoscopy (medical procedure) and extracted the LED bulb from the right main trachea of the child. After the operation, the child's health has been improving, said a doctor familiar with the development.
The child is now healthy without any other problems, so he will be discharged from the hospital soon, said the doctor.
