Boy stays with the tongue in a bottle of insert – doctor saves him with a simple Trick

The mishap looks funny, but is life-threatening: In Hanover, a seven-year-old Boy when it comes to juice is to lick with the tongue in a glass bottle stuck. In the emergency room of the children’s and Youth hospital auf der Bult, the Doctors Christoph Eich and Simone Arndt, freed him with a simple Trick, such as you describe in the latest issue of the “European Journal of Anaesthesiology”.

The physician inserted a thin plastic cannula between the tongue and the bottle neck, and injected 60 milliliters of air. Due to the Overpressure, the purple was pushed out discolored tongue. The tongue was already swollen. The Boy remained still for 24 hours for observation in the clinic. After 14 days, there was nothing of the bruising and the swelling to see.

Overpressure method – simple and effective

How often children with the tongue to remain in a bottle plug, is not known. In most of the cases have been described in the literature, had to be cut, the bottles made of glass, plastic or metal, partly with the help of the fire brigade. “This means a higher risk of injury,” said Eich. In addition, there had been in earlier cases, a General anesthetic, a local anesthetic, or even intubation. The Overpressure method was simple, effective and safe.

The bruising and the swelling were gone after about two weeks

First of all, the Doctors had tried in the emergency room, in vain, to make the bottle edge of the glide, as well as to relieve the supposed vacuum. Eich then came out of the syringe on the idea with the Air, because he had opened with the same technique as a young assistant to the doctor once a bottle of wine, no corkscrew to Hand.