Accidents - Christmas decorations - 0-5 years old - Year 2002 - Internal

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 773
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/30/2002	Age: 18 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PT BIT XMAS ORNAMENT WITH POSS SWALLOWING SMALL PIECE OF GLASS, FB/INGE STION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/29/2002	Age: 10 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED SMALL PIECE OF ORNAMENT AT HOME- NO COUGHING OR DIFF. BREATHING. DX: SWALLOWED ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/28/2002	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PT SWALLOWED A CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT HOOK FOREIGN BODY INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 13 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PT WAS AT HOME WHEN HE ATE A SMALL CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/21/2002	Age: 14 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations, Batteries
PATIENT BROKE XMAS ORNAMENT, DAD CAUGHT PATIENT WITH BATTERIES; ONE IN HAND/ONE MISSING. DX. SWALLOWED WATCH BATTERY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2002	Age: 18 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED A PIECE OF A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT DX: INGESTED FOREIGN OBJECT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/20/2002	Age: 19 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
POSSIBLY SWALLOWED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2002	Age: 14 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
BIT GLASS CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT POSS. INGESTION FB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/19/2002	Age: 16 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PATIENT FOUND WITH A PIECE OF GLASS CHRISTMAS BULB IN HER MOUTH; OBJECT S IN STOMACH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/17/2002	Age: 9 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED PIECE OF GLASS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/15/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
INGESTION OF PART OF ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/14/2002	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
17 MONTH OLD FEMALE INGESTED X-MAS ORNAMENT INGESTED F'OBJECT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2002	Age: 9 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
INGESTED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/08/2002	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Aspirated Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED ORNAMENT HANGER AT HOME- VOMITED 7 TIMES DX: ESOPHAGEAL FOREIGN BODY - ADMITTED
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 21 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
CHILD FOUND WITH BROKEN GLASS FROM CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT IN MOUTH. D:GLASS IN STOMACH, SMALL MOUTH LACERATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/07/2002	Age: 23 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PATIENT ATE A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT. DX-FOREIGN BODY INGESTION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/05/2002	Age: 8 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
MOTHER IS MISSING METAL HOOK AFTER PT. PLAYED W/ TREE ORNAMENT. EXPOSUR E TO FOREIGN BODY, POSSIBLE INGESTION ORNAMENT HOOK
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/03/2002	Age: 18 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
POSSIBLY SWALLOWED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 11/30/2002	Age: 18 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
18MONTH OLD MALE FOUND CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT AND ATE IT. DX; GLASS FOUND IN MOUTH AND INTESTINE, NOT KNOWN HOW MUCH MORE MAY BE FOUND.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PT POSSIBLY SWALLOWED ORNAMENT HANGER, INGESTION F.B.(POSSIBLE)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/29/2002	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
FB INGESTION-SWALLOWED A SMALL, ROUND BELL WHILE PLAYING IN CHRISTMAS D ECORATIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/02/2002	Age: 17 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PLAYING BY CHRISTMAS TREE- BROKE GLASS BELL & ATE SOME OF IT DX: GLASS INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/18/2002	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
PARENT THINKS PT MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A PIECE OF CHRISTMAS TREE ORNA MENT, POSS FB INGESTION/CHOKING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/10/2002	Age: 8 months	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/10/2002	Age: 15 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
INGESTION OF F.B. PT INGESTED BROKEN CRHISTMAS ORNAMENTS, NO PAIN OR VOMIT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/04/2002	Age: 11 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Christmas decorations
SWALLOWED GLASS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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