A toddler from China had a chopstick removed from his brain after he accidently fell and the chopstick poked up through his nose, hospital spokesman Chen Yawei said.
The toddler, Li Jingchao, was playing with chopsticks while his mother was in the kitchen washing dishes when he fell and began crying when a chopstick pierced into his nose, Chen said.
Li, from the eastern province of Shandong, is undergoing treatment at Bo Ai Hospital in Beijing for an infection caused by the life-threatening impalement, spokesman Chen Yawei said.
Because local hospitals did not have the appropriate technology to safely remove the chopsticks from the child’s brain, the family travelled 10 hours by car to Beijing 26 December immediately after the accident
The boy arrived with a high fever and an irregular heartbeat, according to a report released by the hospital.
“Luckily, the removal resulted in little bleeding and he suffered only an infection,” Chen said.
Chen said Li’s neurosurgeon was perfect for the job since he had extensive experience with surgeries involving chopsticks lodged in eyes, foreheads and necks.
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