My friend drank harpic on 14/07/2021 nearly 100 ml. He is suffering from bloody vomits and pain in stomach now all bloody vomis stopped. He is spitting saliva continuously. His throat is closed completely he is unable to eat now. The doctors put some food pipe to stomach for having liquid foods. On 10/08/2021 he have endoscopy and dilatation. So after dilatation can he eat through mouth? When doctors will remove the food pipe? When he will recover? When he can go to normal life?

Dr. Rachana SonejiGeneral Physician1yrs exp

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Hello lybrate-user. Your friend as he ingested harpic has now damaged his inner layers of stomach and esophagus. For now the ngt or the food pipe is mandatory because from that only he is getting all his foods. We need to wait till the recovery. Need to see all the reports so that I can know his current situation.  

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Dr. Rakshith DasGeneral Physicianyrs exp

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Food pipe / esophagus is a long tube that carries food swallowed to stomach for digestion, swallowing harpic this foodpipe is burnt chemically and has become scarred reducing the lumen size and causing difficulty swallowing, it takes months to heal and might need a feeding jejunostomy (tube in intestine for feeding) till his food pipe recovers. Need reports of endoscopy to assess severity and time for recovery.  

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