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27th September 2017
06:31pm BST

Doctors performed a bronchoscopy allowing them to have a much closer look at his airways and eventually led to them removing the toy with forceps.
The report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Case Reports said the man’s airway may have been able to adapt and remodel to the presence of the foreign body but that “a case in which the onset of symptoms occurs so long after initial aspiration is unheard of.”
The man recalled having fun with his Playmobile toys and believes he remembers swallowing or inhaling one of these toys around his 7th birthday.
Without a doubt, he must be delighted to have finally gotten rid of that awful cough, and things probably got a bit sentimental too!