PNEUMONIA DUE TO THE ASPIRATION OF LIPOIDS

摘要: The extensive use of oils in pediatric practice, both as food and for therapeutic purposes, has been attended some instances with unexpected pulmonary complications; unexpected, because it was not realized until pointed out by a number observers, that oils, when given to young children either orally or through the nasopharynx, infrequently pass into trachea ultimately reach alveoli lungs. Having reached alveoli, fats initiate an interesting pathologic process. earliest literature pertaining these changes refers experiments done on animals. In 1920, Guieysse-Pellissier1described lungs rabbits dogs following intratracheal injection olive oil. He found were filled many large mononuclear cells containing oil, polymorphonuclears eosinophils. Corper Fried,2in 1922, described similar resulting from