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Chopstick in Boy’s Brain

| March 9, 2015 Comment

Chopstick in Boy’s Brain – Doctors removed six centimeters of a chopstick that was stuck in a one-year-old’s brain.

While eating chow mein with his parents, baby Hanhang tripped and fell, sending the chostick up his nose. His parents removed the chopstick and took him to the hospital, but the doctors did not take a X-ray and failed to notice the other pieces of the chopstick that had penetrated his brain, and sent him home.

When the boy started vomiting and becoming drowsy, the concerned parents took him to the hospital a second time ten days later and this time the doctors saw what the problem was and were able to remove the 6-centimeter-long piece from his brain, and his condition improved immediately.

Though the baby still has a brain infection and will spend some more days in the hospital for treatment, doctors say that he’ll be fine. According to the attending physician, the chopstick got stuck in a nonfunctional part of the brain,

Last year, there were two similar cases in China; fortunately in both cases, the boys recovered without any damage to the brain.

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