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Suspicious history

Authoring team

If there is a typical antecedent history of inhalation of a foreign body such as:

  • running with an object in the mouth
  • paroxysmal coughing
  • violent and prolonged choking over food such as peanuts

Admit to hospital even in the absence of symptoms.


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