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Mumbai: A seven-month-old girl who suffered from a persistent cough and fever had an LED bulb removed from her right lung through a bronchoscopy. It is said that her parents, who weren't aware of the incident, had to wait for a week before doctors at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in Parel could go ahead with the procedure to extract the bulb (2 cm in diameter), which she accidentally consumed it while playing with a toy cell phone.

Her parents, who initially thought that their child had swallowed thread or a mobile pin, took her to local physicians but her condition deteriorate. However, an X-ray done at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital revealed foreign body in the right lung of the child. Doctors had to put Ariba Khan on antibiotics to prevent and control infection.

“Antibiotics were given and primarily when a bronchoscopy was done the complete bronchus was full of granulation tissue that was on account of the prolonged lodging of this foreign body. An intravenous course of antibiotics and steroids were given for 2 days to clear the infection and granulations of the airway which blocked the foreign body. Following this Bronchoscopy was repeated and within 2 minutes this foreign body (only a wire strand was seen from the scope) was removed using forceps. To our surprise, this happened to be a 2cm LED bulb, which has not been seen after even thousands of copies done here,” Dr Divya Prabhat, Head of Department ENT, Bai Jerbai Wadia hospital for children says in a press release.

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“We thank Wadia Hospital’s team as they saved my daughter’s life. We were completely unaware of the fact that our child swallowed LED bulb, but the doctors here diagnosed it accurately and immediately took corrective measures,” says Ariba’s father.

“Our hospital has one of the highest numbers of Pediatric bronchoscopies being done in the country and is a tertiary referral for these from even major institutions”, added Dr Minnie Bodhanwala, CEO Wadia Hospital.