He had a chicken bone trapped in his lung for 14 years and didn't know

The woman suffered from pain more than 14 years ago and did not know the reason.

After 14 years of checkups and x-rays to discover what had been causing her persistent cough for the past 14 years, a 22-year-old Chinese woman recently learned that it was all caused by a chicken bone.

The woman's problems began after she suffered a severe cough attack when she was seven or eight years old, and despite numerous visits to the hospital, no one was able to detect any abnormalities that could be causing her uncontrollable cough.

Refusing to simply accept her coughing fits and breathing problems as part of her daily life, the woman continued to seek medical help, and was misdiagnosed multiple times in the process, including with bronchiectasis, a condition characterized by cough rich in mucus due to airways. damaged respiratory. Unfortunately, after years of taking antibiotics to treat the disease, her condition had not improved at all.

Incredibly, the woman finally discovered the cause of her annoying cough entirely by accident. She had decided to have surgery for hyperhidrosis (hyper sweating), but the doctors had to do some tests to make sure she was healthy enough to have the operation. It was then that her respiratory problems arose, so Wang Jiyong, Deputy Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Guangzhou Hospital, ordered a series of CT scans.

The scans revealed what appeared to be a foreign object lodged in the patient's right lung, so the surgeon decided to perform a bronchoscopy to identify it. The 30-minute procedure involved a tube with a small, lightweight chamber at the end that was inserted through her mouth, down the airway to her lungs.The doctor managed to find the mysterious object in the woman's right lung, and then retrieve it with the bronchoscope. It turned out to be a chicken bone fragment about 2 cm long. Hearing the news, the shocked patient told doctors she had no idea how the bone had ended up in her lung, but doctors said she must have been accidentally inhaled, during her childhood, probably when she had that first coughing fit. it all started.