Aspiration of a large piece of spoon : An interesting suicide attempt
There are different kinds of foreign bodies that people aspirate. It depends on diet and the customs of the community. Almost the largest percent of accidental deaths in children under the age of 5 goes consists of Foreign Body Aspiration (FBA)1. However, a number of adults live with FBA, and foreign body can remain undetected for a long period of time2. A spoon in the bronchus has rarely been described as a FB, and never as a weapon of suicide so far. As an FB, spoon is always taken through oral route, and located in different parts of the digestive tract. When a large foreign body is aspirated, the result can be acute respiratory distress and, sometimes, even death. Also, foreign body aspiration can mimic other illnesses, causing some difficulties in diagnosis, e.g. astma3. The mortality can be reduced if a foreign body is diagnosed and removed early. Otherwise, the complications are serious and sometimes fatal4.