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Doctors at the government medical college in Kerala have removed a tiny whistle from the respiratory system of a 40-year-old woman who had accidentally swallowed it 25 years ago while playing, which lead to continuous cough for over two decades.
The woman is from Mattannur in Kannur district of Kerala. She went to the doctor following the continuous cough she had been experiencing for a long time, particularly during the cold season.
Doctors said that a private clinic pulmonologist referred her to the government medical college on Tuesday, who had suspected the presence of a foreign body in her airways that lead from the trachea into the lungs.
A team of doctors at the medical college, led by doctors Dr Rajiv Ram and Dr Padmanabhan, examined her and found an object that was stuck in the bronchus (passage or airway in the respiratory system that conducts air into the lungs). She was subjected to bronchoscopy and the whistle she had accidentally swallowed 25 years ago while playing with her friends was removed, doctors said.
The woman had thought that she was having breathing difficulties due to asthma, but when the object was removed she recalled the incident. The doctors said that she is now relieved of her breathing problems and cough.
The woman told doctors that she drank a lot of water to dislodge the object but was unaware that it got lodged in the bronchus.
Source: indiatoday.in, hindustantimes.com
Written by Siddhant Sharma
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