Pyatigorsk Doctors Remove Batteries, Crowns from Patients

Doctors at Pyatigorsk City Clinical Hospital summarized a rather unpleasant year-end result — what they had to extract from patients. The list turned out to be frightening even for experienced medics: batteries, dental crowns, fruit pits, and other foreign objects that ended up inside people.

As reported by Pyatigorsk City Clinical Hospital, such cases are not at all rare. Every year, dozens of patients with foreign bodies are admitted to the hospital, and a significant portion of them are children. In most situations, time is of the essence: people require emergency medical assistance.

Doctors emphasize: behind the quirky headlines lies a serious problem. The entry of foreign objects into the body can lead to severe complications — from damage to internal organs to life-threatening situations.

Medics urge parents to be especially vigilant and not leave children unattended, and adults — not to treat such situations lightly.