Foreign Body Ingestion (FBI) is a common clinical emergency in children. Most FBs smoothly pass through the digestive tract without complications; nevertheless, some FBs can cause severe morbidity and mortality. The current work aimed at evaluating how FBI can cause respiratory distress and stridor as well as their severity according to age, gender, lodgment site, and type of the object. Factors influencing morbidity and mortality among studied patients will be deliberated as well.

Background: Foreign Body Ingestion (FBI) is a common clinical emergency in children. Most FBs smoothly pass through the digestive tract without complications; nevertheless, some FBs can cause severe morbidity and mortality. The current work aimed at evaluating how the FBI can cause respiratory distress and stridor as well as their severity according to age, gender, lodgment site, and type of the object. Factors influencing morbidity and mortality among studied patients will be deliberated as well.

Methods: It is a hospital-based descriptive study where all children between birth and 16 years of age who were admitted from January 1 st, 2018 to December, 31th 2021 for FBs removal were analyzed. All cases were subjected to complete history taking, physical, radiological, and bronchoscopic examination.

Inclusion Criteria:

• children between birth and 16 years of age FBs removal
• history suggestive of foreign body swallow

Exclusion criteria:

- none

children between birth and 16 years of age