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A 2013 report stated that, from 2001 to 2009, an average of 12,435 children (14 years old or younger) per year were treated in US Emergency Rooms because of food-related choking.[Ref:1]
Plastic Stickers and Toy Parts
Foreign Body
This sticker had been lodged in the esophagus. Similar stickers have become lodged between the vocal cords.
Plastic toy parts (such as tiny pegs from board games or very small pieces of LEGO®) may fly past the vocal cords, into the bronchi.
This has also happened many times with Mardi Gras beads.[Ref:24]