Boy developed squeak after getting duck whistle lodged in lung

Family and teachers thought Hector Flores Junior of New York was playing tricks on them when they heard him making squeaking sounds. But the 7-year-old had swallowed a part from inside a plastic toy duck that makes a whistling noise nearly a month earlier.

Two weeks later, his mother noticed the strange sound when Hector Junior had a laughing spell during a shopping trip. So, his parents took him to the emergency room at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.



"They said he didn't have anything. That it was probably a psychological issue with the child. They concluded the child had a lot of faecal matter," his father said. They were given pills for a digestive problem.

Still worried, his father recorded the whistling and showed the video to doctors at Montefiore Hospital who the used a camera to find the whistle in his respiratory system. Doctors performed a simple 45 minute surgery with an endoscopy. The whistle was found in one of the arteries near his lungs.

With news video.