A toothbrush swallowed by a child successfully extracted by the Saudi medical team in 20 minutes

Riyadh: A medical team at Saudi‘s Makkah’s Maternity and Children Hospital succeeded in extracting an electric toothbrush tip from the stomach of a 9-year-old child, endoscopically, without surgical intervention.

Makkah’s Health Cluster said that the child was transferred to the hospital’s emergency room after having swallowed the head of an electric toothbrush. After preliminary examinations and conducting x-rays to determine the location of the brush inside the digestive system, it was precisely located inside the stomach, where the medical team decided to remove it so as not to lead to intestinal obstruction.

The operation was performed by laparoscope in 20 minutes without any complications, and the nine-year-old continues to spend the recovery period in the hospital under medical observation.

About Makkah’s Maternity and Children’s Hospital

Maternity and Children Hospital is the reference hospital in Makkah in the field of obstetrics and children. During the past period, health services were developed and improved in the various departments of the hospital.

Maternity and Children’s Hospital is a new medical achievement added to the campaign of achievements that have been achieved on the ground.

Maternity and Children’s Hospital provides health care services for women and all diseases related to women’s health by qualified, specialized and highly professional doctors using the latest equipment and technologies through outpatient clinics, in addition to receiving all emergency cases in the emergency department around the clock.

Maternity and Children Hospital also provides services to pregnant women from the beginning of the pregnancy months until birth, with all necessary examinations and an ultrasound examination of the fetus’s safety.

Natural delivery also takes place in rooms equipped with all the necessary devices to monitor the mother and fetus, with the possibility of providing a pain-free delivery service using back needles.

Maternity and Children Hospital provides all services to patients suffering from delayed pregnancy, infertility, and general gynaecology, with the possibility of performing all major surgeries as well as performing laparoscopic operations.

maternity department also contains a separate operating room for cases in which the mother may need a surgical intervention. Operations are performed by doctors and cadres at the highest level of experience and knowledge.