Choking

Introduction Neonatal, infant and young children's nervous system development is imperfect, easy to cause epiglottis failure, and milk is its main performance. When the baby spits milk, due to the malfunction of the episode piston cap movement, the trachea is not tightly sealed, and the milk juice is mistakenly inserted into the trachea, which is called milking milk. The baby cannot pull out the milk that has entered the respiratory tract, which causes the airway to mechanically block. The occurrence of severe dyspnea and hypoxia is called "sucking suffocation".

Cause

Vitamin A deficiency

The study found that infant milk is closely related to vitamin A deficiency, and good results can be seen after vitamin A supplementation. Researchers believe that vitamin A plays an important role in maintaining the normal structure and health of skin and mucous epithelial cells.

When the baby is deficient in vitamin A, the pharyngeal epithelial cells located in the anterior part of the larynx are atrophied and keratinized, causing the sputum to swallow and cover the trachea when swallowing. Infants can eat some carrot juice, vegetable soup or appropriate supplements such as cod liver oil and vitamin A capsules, which can quickly improve the symptoms of breast milk.

an examination

Related inspection

Lung and pleural auscultation pulmonary function test

Laboratory tests can be performed for trace element examinations, and if necessary, oral endoscopy is a congenital anorexia defect.

Differential diagnosis

It is necessary to identify the cause of suckling milk in young children. Because of the inhalation of air in the stomach, it is caused by lack of vitamin A.

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