Is a foreign body in the esophagus serious?

The consequences of foreign bodies in the esophagus should be very serious. In particular, some sharp and large foreign bodies can cause very serious consequences after being swallowed into the esophagus, even piercing the esophageal wall and running into the mediastinum, posing a danger to human life. For example, if a date kernel punctures the wall of the esophagus, if the kernel does not break the wall of the esophagus, it will not stay in the first stricture of the esophagus. Therefore, it is easy to cause bleeding and mediastinal infection by piercing the esophageal wall. In case of swallowing dentures, the dentures fall into the esophagus, and there is a row of dentures plus the wire that fixes the dentures is relatively large, and the wire pierces the esophagus wall and runs into the mediastinum, which is very close to the large blood vessels of the heart, so such patients are very dangerous. So once the large blood vessels and heart are pierced, the life of the patient may be in danger. Therefore, any patient with a foreign body in the esophagus should go to the hospital as soon as possible. It is entirely possible for the doctor to remove the foreign body through gastroscopy. Theoretically, as long as the foreign body should be removed.