2023 Volume 59 Issue 5 Pages 868-871
The accidental ingestion of superabsorbent resin material products may have a different symptom course from that of general foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract, and there have been some reports on this in recent years. The patient was a 15-year-11-month-old girl, who was under observation due to psychomotor retardation. Vomiting symptoms appeared 12 days earlier, which gradually worsened, and an imaging examination led to the diagnosis of intestinal obstruction due to a foreign body in the small intestine, which was removed by emergency laparotomy. The usual form of a foreign body was a toy that was about half the size after expansion, and it increased in size by absorbing water from the solution in the digestive tract, becoming immobilized in the small intestine, and causing intestinal obstruction. Superabsorbent resin material products are characterized by being more likely to expand in the intestines, and they can be positioned as a new type of foreign substance, in addition to button batteries and multiple magnets that cause adverse events if accidentally ingested, and it is necessary to pay attention to them.
