7-Year-Old Swallows 50-Cent Coin, Doctor Shares X-Ray on Social Media To Raise Awareness

It is often advised to keep certain hazardous objects out of the reach of children and rightly so. Kids are innocent and are often unaware of the dangers that they are susceptible to and the responsibility to keep these hazardous objects away lies with the parents. Recently, a doctor took the help of social media to educate parents about the necessity to monitor their children’s activities, especially when they are around certain objects. https://twitter.com/Dr_Shaiful/status/1508078035152498693 “This is the story of OnCall last night, a week before Ramadan,” he said Shaiful, who is an expert in ENT surgery, explained that he was told by his medical officer that a 7-year-old was in the emergency ward after swallowing a coin. This made Shaiful feel relieved as he said that one of the main concerns of ENT specialists is that when a child swallows something foreign, there is a risk of entry into the respiratory tract which is way more catastrophic than the oesophagus.