New research analyzed the rate of foreign-body ingestion in young children, only to determine it increased by over 90% over the study’s 21-year period. Though the items and circumstances vary, no age ...

Portrait of a small child choked on food eating in the kitchen and a parent slaps his hand on the back This review provides a concise overview of the epidemiology, etiology, history, diagnostic ...

A: Foreign-object ingestion and food-bolus impaction occur commonly. The majority of foreign bodies (ie, foreign objects and food bolus) that reach the stomach will pass spontaneously. However, 10% to ...

According to a new study in the journal Pediatrics, the rate of foreign-body ingestions among children under age 6 nearly doubled in the two decades after 1995. By Christina Caron [For more ...

A 39-year-old Caucasian man was seen in the Cornea Service at the New England Eye Center with complaints of sore and swollen eyelids and foreign body sensation in both eyes for several months. The ...

It's not uncommon for doctors to have to remove numerous bizarre objects from unsuspecting places in the human body. One such strange foreign body found recently was an entire housefly that was ...