Bengaluru: 55-year-old woman inhales sharp cloth pin while shopping, gets it removed after a month
Bengaluru: In a delicate medical case, a 55-year-old woman from Bengaluru has recovered after unknowingly inhaling a sharp metallic cloth pin that remained lodged in her lung for over a month.
The woman had placed the pin in her mouth while checking clothes in a shop. When she suddenly sneezed, the pin slipped into her airway, eventually embedding itself in the bronchus intermedius, a section of the right lung, as reported by The New Indian Express on Friday.
She later developed persistent dry cough and wheezing, but multiple hospital visits failed to identify the cause. The issue came to light only after doctors at Aster CMI Hospital conducted advanced imaging, including chest X-ray and CT scans, revealing the foreign object embedded in her lung.
Dr Sunil Kumar K, Lead Consultant – Interventional Pulmonologist at the hospital, explained that the pin’s sharp end had pierced into the lung, making removal with standard instruments risky. “The team used a Fogarty balloon to gently move it out and then pulled it out using special forceps, all done while the patient was under sedation,” TNIE quoted him as saying.
The Fogarty balloon catheter is a type of procedure that allows doctors to look inside the airways, avoiding further damage to the airway and ensuring a full recovery.
Fortunately, the woman has recovered well and was sent home in a stable condition with no breathing issues. The hospital said the case underscores the importance of early diagnosis in unusual causes of cough and to be careful about keeping sharp objects near the mouth.
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SC slams WhatsApp, Meta over privacy policy, says will pass interim order on Feb 9
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp while hearing their appeals against a Competition Commission of India order imposing a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore over the privacy policy, saying tech giants cannot “play with the right to privacy of citizens in the name of data sharing”.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said that it will pass an interim order on February 9. The top court ordered that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology be made a party to the petitions.
It was hearing appeals filed by Meta and WhatsApp against a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) judgment that upheld the CCI’s findings of abuse of dominance, while granting limited relief on advertising-related data sharing.
"You can't play with the right of privacy of this country in the name of data sharing. We will not allow you to share a single word of the data, either you give an undertaking...you cannot violate the right of privacy of citizens,” the CJI said.
The bench said the right to privacy is zealously guarded in the country and noted that the privacy terms are “so cleverly crafted” that a common person cannot understand them.
“This is a decent way of committing theft of private information, we will not allow you to do that... You have to give an undertaking otherwise, we have to pass an order,” the CJI said.
