A throat examination similar to the one carried out on a woman who had a pill packet stuck in her throat for 17 days GETTYA woman in Northern Ireland was unaware that she had a plastic pill packet lodged in her throat for 17 days. The unnamed patient, aged in her forties, swallowed a Tramadol tablet that was still in its foil and plastic packaging one night last November. According to a report in The BMJ medical journal, she went to the emergency department the next morning complaining of difficulty swallowing. There she was described as “fit and well”, and doctors observed that she was tolerating fluids, had no airway difficulties and could mobilise her neck. The pill packet did not show up in X-rays but doctors advised her to come back if there was no improvement and when she returned three days later she was treated with steroids…

Source: The Times January 17, 2019 00:00 UTC