Magnitude and object-specific hazards of aspiration and ingestion injuries among children in Greece

Nuts and seed: A natural yet dangerous foreign body

“…The nature of inhaled foreign bodies varies from country to country and is dependent on diverse cultural, social, and economic factors that include parental attitudes, eating habits, availability and types of potentially threatening objects, and prevention strategies [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

Food foreign body injuries

“…Particularly fish bones are dangerous because they possess the potential hazard of (8) a Ratio between the maximum and the minimum size reported. perforating the bowel, mandating surgical exploration [23]. On the other hand, when located in the respiratory airways, nuts represent a serious threat: in fact, swelling with time and irritating the bronchial mucosa, they lead to an intense, local, chemical inflammatory reaction, early obstruct the tracheobronchial tree and make bronchoscopic identification and removal more difficult [6].…”

Mystery of the neck sinus

“…This type of occurrences is rare in the literature (1,2,3,4,5). Therefore, a foreign body as the aetiology was neither suspected at the onset of the symptoms nor at the second surgery for excision of the sinus tract.…”