1.5cm piece of wood almost blinded boy

A child patient in Ca Mau was hospitalized with a wound infection and was at risk of losing his vision due to a piece of wood remaining in his eye socket.

The child is out of danger.

On July 4, Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City announced that it had successfully performed surgery on patient LTL (7 years old, living in Ca Mau ) with complex eye injury.

Medical history shows that L. was stabbed in the face by a tree on June 6, causing bleeding. The family took L. to a local clinic to remove the foreign object.

However, the child's condition became increasingly worse: the right eye was swollen, had a lot of pus, was in severe pain, and showed signs of widespread infection. On the morning of June 10, the family took the child to Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Here, the doctor assessed that the child had a severe infection with a foreign object in the eye socket and damage to the upper branch of the third cranial nerve, resulting in symptoms of strabismus and ptosis.

CT scan results showed a large abscess around the right eye socket, with a suspected foreign object deep inside the soft tissue. Given this condition, the patient was scheduled for emergency surgery that same day.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, acting Head of the Ophthalmology Department at Children's Hospital 1, said that during the surgery, the team drained the pus and removed a 1.5cm long wooden foreign object that was left deep in the soft tissue near the eye socket. This piece of wood was the cause of the infection spreading and forming an abscess.

To date, the patient is out of danger, receiving post-operative care and continuing active antibiotic treatment at the hospital. The infection in the eye socket has reduced significantly, and the symptoms of strabismus and ptosis have also improved.

Doctors removed a piece of wood that caused the child's infection.

“Eye trauma is an emergency. If handled incorrectly, foreign objects are left behind, or treatment is delayed, it can cause abscesses, orbital cellulitis, soft tissue necrosis, and even permanent vision loss or life-threatening infections,” Dr. Ngoc Anh warned.

Therefore, if a child has an eye accident, he or she should be taken immediately to a hospital with an eye specialist for proper examination and monitoring.

GIAO LINH

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/manh-go-15cm-khien-be-trai-suyt-mu-loa-post802387.html