Boy’s Cough Caused by Swallowed Lego
A 5-year-old boy who developed a persistent cough that occurred after exercise and at night was initially thought to have asthma, but the real problem was a tiny Lego, doctors report.
The boy had swallowed it before the cough began, and it had lodged in a lung. When it was removed, the cough disappeared.
Legos are tiny, interlocking building blocks and pieces of other shapes. The case is reported in the Feb. 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine by doctors in Hong Kong. It’s probably a rare problem, the doctors said.
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