Sunod-sunod ang kaso ng mga batang nakalunok ng limang pisong barya, magnet at isang buong rambutan. Mga magulang, iingatan po natin ang ating mga anak.


It was a Sunday evening when the 7 year-old Jerryco, whose playing with coins while lying down, accidentally dropped a 5-peso coin directly into his mouth. Afraid of what might happen to him, the child took time to tell his mother about the incident until he started vomiting.



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Jerryco was immediately brought to the hospital, wherein, the doctors suggested an operation because the coin has a high risk of causing obstruction to food and bringing an infection.


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“Umiyak na po ako nang umiyak. Paano 'yan, pa-o-opera ka wala naman tayong pera. Sabi ko, 'Lulunok ka pa ng pera?' ‘Hindi na po’," said Victoria Mayco, Jerryco's mother.

(I cried and cried. [I thought] what about it now, you need to be operated but we don't have money. I told him, 'You'll swallow a coin again?' 'Not anymore')


Victoria Mayco decided not to push through with the operation and brought Jerryco home instead. Luckily, the coin eventually came out of his body when Jerryco moved out his bowel, after two days.



Almost the same incident happened in Sto. Tomas, Batangas, wherein, another 7 year-old child accidentally swallowed a foreign object. This time, it was a 2-inch long magnet that 'Z' incautiously swallowed.



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Nerif Latayan, Z's mother, narrated that the magnet only lasted for two hours on Z's body.  It was fortunate of them because the magnet did not block any passages but directly went down of Z's body.



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However, this wasn't always the case because in Antipolo City, a 2 year-old child passed away after accidentally swallowing a whole rambutan. The child was immediately brought to the hospital but soon demised.


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“Ang hirap po, miss na miss kana ni mama. Di ko po kasi akalain na ganun ang mangyayari", said the child's mother.

(It was hard, mama misses you so much. It was just that I didn't expect it to happen)


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Coins, thumbtacks, pins, and pendants are among the most common objects that are ingested accidentally by children. East Avenue Medical Center of Quezon City records says they receive about five to eight patients of this case in a week.


“Wag natin pasusukahin yung bata. Wag rin natin dudukutin yung nalunok nila,” adviced Dr. John Faustine D. Gutierrez, an Otorhinolaryngologist. He also stressed that there's no first aid in this case other than heimlich maneuver if the object is not yet in a complicated area of the body.

(Let's not force the kid to vomit. Let's also not force to pull out the object swallowed)








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