Nebuliser solution bottle cap presenting as a foreign body in the subglottic airway

Abstract

To the Editor: A 58-yr-old obese male with obstructive sleep apnoea and asthma, for which he used nebulised bronchodilators, presented with a 4-month history of wheeze and stridor on both inspiration and expiration. There was a small amount of fresh haemoptysis if he coughed vigorously. A plain chest radiograph was normal. The patient was treated for an exacerbation of asthma but there was little improvement in his symptoms. A computed tomography scan was performed and a tracheal foreign body shaped like a fish bone was …