Toddler trips and gets a 2 ½ inch piece of a chopstick lodged in his brain
The one year old was playing with a chopstick when he fell and jammed it up his nose and into his brain.
2015/03/06
A baby boy in Liaoning nicknamed Hang Hang suffered a terrible accident after he grabbed a chopstick and attempted to dash away with his prize.
Unfortunately, Hang Hang tripped and fell, stabbing himself up the nose with the chopstick.
His horrified parents removed the chopstick from his nose and rushed him to hospital. The doctor did a visual check of the 20 month old baby and told his parents they could take Hang Hang home.
However, a few days later Hang Hang began to run a fever and started vomiting. His parents took him back to the hospital where a pediatric surgeon performed a minorly invasive surgery to remove yellow pus oozing from the baby’s nose.
Hang Hang seemed to get better but then relapsed into a mild coma.
The doctors asked Hang Hang’s parents about the accident and if they’d removed the chopstick and they said they did. Hang Hang’s father had been so upset by the incident that he’d broken and thrown all the chopsticks in the house away.
Doctors then realized that part of the chopstick had broken off inside the baby’s brain. Hang Hang had an X-ray and they found something lodged inside his head.
Doctors then removed a two and a half inch long piece of the broken chopstick from Hang Hang’s brain during surgery.
Hang Hang is now recovering and he has woken up from his coma, but his parents and doctors won’t know the extent of the damage until he is older.