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A little girl swallowed her mother’s diamond wedding ring and it had to be surgically removed.
The girl’s mother couldn’t find her diamond ring, but she didn’t think much of it until her daughter got sick and started vomiting for 11 hours.
The woman took her 15-month-old daughter to the emergency room in Qingdao, China, where an external examination found no cause for the child’s symptoms.
But then an X-ray revealed both the location of the mother’s diamond ring and the cause of the child’s illness: the jewel was lodged in the child’s abdomen.
Doctors decided to surgically remove it because they feared the diamond could be potentially dangerous to the girl.
An X-ray image revealed that the diamond ring was in the boy’s abdomen
Another X-ray image showed where the diamond ring was inside the boy’s stomach.
They also suspected that it would be difficult to get through it naturally without complications.
Doctors successfully removed the ring surgically under general anesthesia. The girl reportedly recovered well and was discharged from the hospital after two days.
Ingestion of foreign objects in children is reported to be most common between the ages of one and three.
The diamond ring that had to be surgically removed after the girl swallowed it
Small, smooth objects can be passed without complications, but even if the affected child does not have symptoms, removal of the object should be considered as soon as possible.
Little Kazarie Dwaah-Lyder, 2, from London, died 14 months after swallowing a plastic “googly eye”, which was not detected by an X-ray because it was not metal.
For just over a year, after swallowing the imitation plastic eyeball, the boy remained “symptom-free” until he was rushed to hospital in April last year, where he sadly died.
Now, in light of the “unforeseen” death of the “beloved” child, coroner Mary Hassell has written to senior doctors questioning the lack of national guidance on children suspected of having swallowed a non-metallic object.
Hassell said he had heard evidence that children suspected of having swallowed a non-radiopaque object, such as a bulging eye, and showing symptoms, should undergo endoscopy, where a camera in a tube is inserted into the patient.