A foreign body in children today is a public health problem that is very little talked about. Foreign body aspiration is extremely dangerous and the most common age of the child at which it occurs is from 1 to 3 years of age. In addition to the aspiration of a foreign body in the respiratory system, aspirations of a foreign body in the digestive system also occur, which, according to research, are more prevalent in boys than girls. Complications are deadly. It is the fourth leading cause of death in children in the world. To prove as well as for the therapeutic effect, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are carried out under general anesthesia. Rigid bronchoscopy is one of the most successful procedures that allows finding and eliminating foreign bodies and the respiratory and digestive systems. During the research and data collection, the MEDLINE database and websites such as PubMed, Hamster and Scholar are used in addition to the most commonly used words: "children", "parents", "incidence", "mortality" and "foreign body". The research also showed the results of education for parents in the world and in the Republic of Croatia. The results show that there is a very low representation of education and knowledge of parents in providing first aid and recognizing the symptoms of suffocation and swallowing of a foreign body in children. Furthermore, the regulations for the import of toys and rules of nutrition for a certain age of the child result in a low proportion of application without parental supervision. For comparison, the results of the world and the Republic of Croatia were taken.