Conversation: The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] I have a child that is almost 3 years old that was eating a chicken leg. Upon examining his plate to see if he needed anything else I realized that there was part of the chicken bone broken off and missing. When I asked him where it went he said it was in his mouth and he ate it. He had already swallowed the food so I dont know exactly how much he swallowed or if it was a small broken piece that he possibly chewed. Do I need to take him to the emergency room?
[|AI|]  Taking a child to emergency room depends on when your child ingested the foreign body, where it is located in gut and what type and how large was the foreign body.in your case child ingested a chicken bone, it is small can be sharp or blunt, has not caused any symptoms like vomiting, pain, or difficulty in swallowing at any time. So it's not of emergency.  But position of chicken bone has to be looked in gut by a chest and abdominal x-ray. If it is still (after 2 hours of ingestion) in upper gut esophagus it has to be removed by endoscope. If it has not crossed stomach after 3 days it has to be removed. If it has crossed stomach it will pass by itself in stool. So please get the X-rays done.