Foreign body aspiration
Foreign body aspiration is common children as they have the habit of keeping
things in the mouth. The commonest material that is reported in the literature
is peanuts. Common symptoms is persistent cough and respiratory distress (depends
upon the type and size of the ingested material). This child presented with
the history of cough for three weeks and persisten tachypnoea. On examination
he had bronchial breath sound in the right infrascapular region. He was treated
with various antibiotics. The chest xray shows the collapse consolitatin in
the right lower zone and CT scan shows the changes. He coughed out the small
piece of olive while in hospital the repeat chest x-ray shows the cleared previous
area.