A 12-year-old female patient living in Ho Chi Minh City accidentally slipped and hit the immediate unconscious next to a wooden chair. Immediately after the accident, the child showed signs of severe swelling and pain, urine difficulty, so his family took him to the hospital for emergency examination.
Here, through clinical examination, doctors determined that the child had a large blood clot in the large left lip, the blood clot was pushed away to the mediastine, obscuring the urethra and vaginal area. This condition makes it difficult to fully assess damage and the risk of complications if not intervened early.
Master, Doctor Phan Le Minh Tien - Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital 2 Ho Chi Minh City - said that the pediatric patient had been indicated for emergency surgery to examine the damage, drain the tu mass and stop the bleeding.
The surgery recorded a blood clot and a bruise spreading to the large lip - the left little lip, but fortunately there was no tear in the urethra, vaginal or anorex. After removing all the blood clots and performing a careful blood stasis, the doctors placed a drainage line through the surgical incision to ensure that the blood clot did not clot. The child recovered well after surgery, eating and urinating normally again after only a few days, showing a positive response to treatment.
Doctor Phan Le Minh Tien said that although am dao injuries in children are not common, they can occur in daily accidents such as falling, playing or hitting a hard object. Because this is a sensitive area, children are often shy, while parents are easily negligent or subjective. Some manifestations such as swelling and pain in the kinistic area, difficulty urinating, negative bleeding or bloody urine should be closely monitored and taken to a medical facility as soon as possible. Proper diagnosis and timely intervention will help avoid complications such as infection, soft tissue necrosis or urinary dysfunction in the long term.
Through this case, experts also emphasized the importance of creating a safe living environment for children. Parents should carefully check the play space, remove items with hard angles, and teach children self-protection skills and the habit of reporting immediately when experiencing unusual pain in the closed area. In addition, it is necessary to encourage children to overcome shyness and proactively share to receive timely medical support when needed.
The case of the girl mentioned above is typical evidence that closed- area injuries in young children can leave serious consequences if taken lightly.
Doctors recommend that parents should not be subjective to any unusual manifestations in children, especially in sensitive areas such as the genitals, to protect the safety and healthy physical and mental development of children.
