Case Report: Upper oesophageal foreign body with acute respiratory distress

摘要

Foreign body (FB) ingestion, a common and serious problem in children can present with a wide variety of symptoms. Oesophageal FB leading to severe acute respiratory distress is uncommon and requires urgent surgical intervenetion. We report an 8-month-old female child who presented with severe respiratory distress to casualty and was found to have a FB in her upper oesophagus.