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Public health drive is required to educate our population about the dangers of corrosive products. Safe storage of corrosive liquids, out of reach from children, is needed. Caustic ingestion produces a progressive and devastating injury to the esophagus and stomach. Caustic material ingestion is mostly accidental in children. Alkaline caustics and acids are the commonest chemicals implicated in caustic burns. Stricture formation with the inability to swallow food after the injury is inevitable in some cases. Diagnosis is by imaging and endoscopy. The goals of therapy is to prevent and treat perforation as early as possible, to avoid strictures of the esophagus and stomach, and to replace or bypass the damaged organ to allow normal swallowing of food.
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Hay, S.A., El Safoury, H.S., Lakhoo, K. (2020). Corrosive Ingestion and Esophageal Replacement. In: Ameh, E.A., Bickler, S.W., Lakhoo, K., Nwomeh, B.C., Poenaru, D. (eds) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41724-6_51
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