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Background: Foreign bodies lodged in the oral cavity can be life-threatening. Their removal should be determined on the basis of the patient's condition, the type of object, the removal techniques available, the appropriate medication available and the potential complications., Case Report: A 9-month-old girl was brought to the emergency room by ambulance after a part of a toy became stuck in her oral cavity. Her father had unsuccessfully attempted to remove it at home. A blue cylindrical, rigid plastic toy part was seen during examination of her oral cavity and her tongue was trapped inside it. On initial assessment, her vital signs were within the normal range. She was agitated, a small amount of saliva mixed with blood was coming out of her mouth and she could not swallow her spittle. She was treated in the resuscitation room by an otorhinolaryngologist and a paediatric emergency team, and the foreign body was removed using bayonet forceps inside the mouth. The child was monitored in the paediatric emergency observation unit for 6 hours for signs of asphyxia and aspiration, and she was discharged without complications., Conclusion: Foreign bodies in the oral cavity can cause serious complications, including injury, bleeding and sudden airway obstruction. Experienced healthcare professionals, especially those skilled in airway management, should handle these cases using a multidisciplinary approach to ensure respiratory safety. Abbreviations: LMA: laryngeal mask airway; PED: paediatric emergency department.

Objective: We aimed to find out the asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence among pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases and healthy children and to compare them with each other., Methods: Patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), and juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (jSLE) and healthy children as healthy control (HC) group who remained asymptomatic during the pandemic are examined by ELISA immunoglobulin (Ig) A and IgG tests in this cross-sectional study., Results: Overall, 149 subjects (90 females) were included in the study. While IgA was positive in 15 subjects (10%) (HC: 8, jSLE: 3, FMF: 2, JIA: 2; p = 0.196), IgG was positive in 14 subjects (9.4%) (HC: 7, JIA: 5, FMF: 1, jSLE: 1; p = 0.156). Nineteen subjects (12.75%) were IgA or IgG positive (HC: 8, JIA: 5, jSLE: 3, FMF: 3; p = 0.644). Although not significant, seropositivity was more often in HC group. Both IgA and IgG positivity were not found to be related to age, sex, underlying rheumatic diseases, and received treatments of the patients., Conclusion: We revealed that patients with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases, even if they receive immunosuppressive medication such as biologic or conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs, might have an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, similarly to their healthy peers. Key points • Although it has been already known that children are most likely to have asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, there is a lack of data on the disease course of children with rheumatic disease. • There was no significant difference regarding the asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity rates between healthy children and the patients with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases. • Patients with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases, even if they receive immunosuppressive medication, might have asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, similarly to their healthy peers., (© 2022. International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR).)