Notas del episodio
A pediatric episode on foreign bodies — what children swallow, inhale, and put in their noses and ears, and what primary care needs to do about each. It opens with an October Pediatrics in Review case of a twelve-month-old treated twice for croup whose stridor turned out to be a dried leaf across the vocal cords. It covers airway foreign bodies, including why a normal chest film doesn't exclude one and why bilateral decubitus films don't help; ingestions, drawing on the April American Family Physician review and the Cribsiders episode with Gabriel Devlin, with how to tell a coin from a button battery on X-ray, the two-hour clock for an esophageal battery and the honey protocol en route, why multiple magnets and water beads are emergencies, and when watchful waiting is reasonable; nasal foreign bodies and the parent's kiss technique; ear foreign bodies and live insects; and prevention, including secured battery compartments.