Doctor issues warning over party whistles

Doctor shares video to warn parents after young boy swallows party whistle.

The video shows the Argentinian schoolboy honking with each breath after he swallowed part of a party horn.

His doctor, Gomez Zuviria, released the video of the boy as a warning to parents about watching what children put in their mouths.

Reportedly the video was recorded in a hospital emergency room in the northwestern Argentine province of Tucuman.

After capturing the video, the doctor then had to remove the object surgically.

A picture shows the tiny white plastic whistle that had become lodged in his windpipe.

honk

I always think I am just being a paranoid mother when I keep nagging my eight year old to STOP putting things in his mouth incase he accidentally swallows it and chokes. I think I might just keep nagging now though!

It can happen so easily!

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11 Comments

- - mom101628 said
  - 14 Oct 2017
    8:46 pm
Very lucky little boy – you can’t ever be vigilant enough around children. They do things so quickly that can harm them.

- - mom94125 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    8:47 pm
wow lucky he was alright and could still breath. be vigilant with your kids!

- - Ellen said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    4:08 am
My 7year old has at the moment the habit to put small things in the mouth and I don’t like it at all ! Objects can get stuck which can have fatal consequences.
Will show her this video.

- - ashna9 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    10:20 pm
I never even considered a party whistle as being a problem?? We have them in party bags all the time. I’ll be watching my kids a bit more closely with them in the future.

- - mom206279 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    8:45 pm
Better to be a nag than a grieving parent.

- - mom93821 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    7:29 pm
Children do put toys and other objects in their mouths – these things do happen and can be quite scary and even life threatening.

- - taynik46 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    7:26 pm
wow that would have been extremely scary I don’t like them anyway, I will make sure to watch my girls if they come into contact with one!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    6:50 pm
I have always hated them for that reason, have been so paranoid of them choking on it whilst running around or inhaling!

- - mom90758 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    4:07 pm
Oh my! Scary. And not just for kids but for our pets too!

- - mom112217 said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    2:09 pm
You just never know,thanks for the warning!

- - BellaB said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    1:37 pm
I am such a nagger about not putting things in your mouth.