[Voodoo Vince]

Boy swallowed drawing pin

Doctors in China have discovered the cause of an eight-year-old boy's constant coughs and colds - a drawing pin stuck in his chest.


Xiao Ming's x-ray /Quirky China News

Xiao Ming, of Mingguang, Anhui province, had been suffering from the mystery ailments for a year, reports the Yangtse Eveing Post.

His parents finally took him to hospital where an xray revealed the drawing pin clearly visible in his right lung.

Ming finally confessed that he swallowed the tack last year but kept it to himself because he was worried he would be told off.

Doctor Zhou Ai, from Nanjing Children's Hospital, said the right lung had withered due to the piercing from the drawing pin.

"But he's very lucky that it didn't cause even more serious damage," he added.

Dr Zhou removed the rusty drawing pin with an endoscope. Ming is expected to make a good recovery.

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[xEriC]

Wa, see lah no tell mummy now yourself painful.

[createweb]

wah lao he dam lucky he didn't die >_>

[Liangyh]

oo

[apailambert]

insane sia....he tinks bionic ah....

[Vondue]

i think shld be very pain ba... poor boy...

[Fujiwari]

Is it still normal for 8 year olds to swallow something foreign?

[fathernature]

wth... if really poke wind pipe or poke lungs wont it be worse -_-

[nuriko_sankc]

stupid boy.. lucky his lungs didnt die on him.. or collaspe

[HIPPO93]

he is so lucky that it is only a minor problem

what if the pin rust inside his lungs? he die for sure

[chowychow]

If poke lung then got hole then he really drown in the water

[iAmBored88]

so lucky din die

[Vauth]

Man, how thick can you get?

[shatterhearts]

yuck so er xin

[platform]

That is why they say don't put foreign objects in your mouth.

[heartloft]

Drawing pin = Thumb tag??

My gf's 1yo daughter swallow coins.. but luckily she shitted everything out liao

[-M1R@G3-]

that must hurt alot .