A five-year-old boy from Tiruvallur district was recently operated on at Sri Ramachandra Hospital after swallowing an LED bulb nearly a month ago.
He was brought to the outpatient ward of the hospital on Friday with breathing difficulty and refractory cough, a hospital release said.
“The mother had seen him playing with some toy. He told her that he had swallowed the toy,” said R. Madhu, head of paediatric surgery at the hospital. “We admitted the child and did a CT scan. We found a foreign object in the lung passage. We told the patient’s family that we had to remove it,” he added.
