Peanut found in one-year-old baby's body after breathing issues, was cutting air supply to lungs

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After a one-year-and-three-month-old baby developed breathing issues in Faridabad, doctors found that a peanut was lodged inside his airway, causing the entire air supply to the lungs to be cut off.

According to a report by the Times of India, the baby had been suffering from a persistent cough for one week and was undergoing treatment at another hospital. However, his condition was not improving. When he was brought to Amrita Hospital in Faridabad, he was struggling to breathe and had low oxygen levels.

The TOI report quoted the doctor as saying that if the condition was not treated in time, it could have resulted in a collapsed lung, severe infection and even life-threatening oxygen shortage. But the doctors were able to remove the peanut from the infant's body in time and slowly, the baby's oxygen levels increased. He was discharged the very next day.

The baby's father said that the family was of the opinion that he had a stubbon cough and had no idea that something was stuck inside the child's body. He said that the doctors saved his baby's life.

In another similar case that the hospital witnessed, an eight-month-old baby came in with oxygen levels as low as 40% and the doctors found out that a foreign object was stuck inside his body as well.

The foreign object was removed but since it had been there a couple of days, it had already caused some swelling inside the baby's body, due to which, the baby had to be kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for two to three days.