A 14-month-old baby was saved after living with a peanut stuck in her windpipe for around 3 weeks. The child, Shruti Shah (name changed), was first taken to a local hospital in the second week of April as she could not breathe properly. She was finally taken to Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai in the last week of April as the problem persisted without doctors being able to diagnose the reason. She was operated on after two days and discharged earlier this month.

Shruti’s parents, residents of Navi Mumbai, were unaware that she had swallowed a whole peanut and took her to several health facilities after she started showing symptoms of respiratory distress. As the root cause could not be diagnosed, she was treated for hyperreactive airway disease and lower respiratory tract infection. She had also tested positive for Covid-19.