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Posted By A Hayden
I would appreciate it if the forum could give an opinion on the claim from one of my staff members that he was not able to get into work as he had swallowed a 20 cm plastic straw whilst simultaneously sucking and hiccuping.
He was told to take it easy for 48 hours by the A&E doctor although an XRay did not detect the straw. The swallowing incident happened at 2pm whilst the XRay was at 5am the following morning.
Could this really happen?
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
You should get a more authoritative response on a medical forum although it sounds pretty unlikely to me.
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Posted By A Campbell
You would be amazed of what people have swallowed in the past... Could happen yes.. common occurrence no
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Posted By S T
This question is for Medical Surgery Forum. Not for this.
So apologies.
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Posted By Renny Thomson
What has this got to do with Occupational Health & Safety? Unless it happened as a work activity?!
Further, did you or the GP, seriously expect a plastic straw to show on x-ray? All that has acheived is exposing the person to a radiation dose for no benefit.
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Posted By Flic
Actually, I would not be surprised if a plastic straw could show up on the X-ray.
I spent a day with a student X-raying a combination lock with nylon internal parts through a thick piece of steel and, when we got the exposure right, you could make out the combination.
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Posted By Renny Thomson
Flic,
how many times was the item exposed?
As far as I know, there are no Regulations limiting exposure or Padlocks to radiation, but there are for humans.
Have a look at http://www.nickveasey.com/NV%20Ass%20p1.html for some interesting artistic use of x-rays.
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Posted By Flic
I am sure radiographers in hospitals are used to X-raying people (especially children) to locate non-metallic objects, and have the exposure down to a fine art.
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Posted By A Hayden
Thanks everyone for your opinions. The employee has been advised how to avoid this type of accident in future. We originally thought he was just looking for the weekend off but from your replies it looks as if he could be telling the truth and we will accept it as such.
"What has this got to do with Occupational Health & Safety? Unless it happened as a work activity?!"
Yes it did happen at work. Am I not allowed to post queries if they happened outside the workplace? I am a bit confused here???
"Further, did you or the GP, seriously expect a plastic straw to show on x-ray? All that has achieved is exposing the person to a radiation dose for no benefit"
I didn't expect anything, but I am sure the A&E doctor who ordered the XRay did so based on his training and measured the radiation risk.
This response was not helpful at all.
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Posted By safetyamateur
I'd pay good money to see him do it again
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Posted By A Hayden
I bet we will get a load of copy cat straw sucking incidents from now on.
Swing by any lunchtime.......
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