Chinese Doctors Remove Chopstick From Baby's Brain

Doctors in China operated on an infant to remove a chopstick embedded in his brain.

The chopstick got embedded in baby's brain after he accidentally tipped over and landed nose-first on it, reports New York Daily News. Immediately after the fall, baby Hanyang's parents pulled the chopstick out of his nose but did not realize a 2.5 inch piece remained. A local hospital too did not check him for remnants wedged in his brain.

Ten days later, the baby began to show drowsiness and fatigue when the parents took him to the hospital again. An x-ray revealed that the chopstick stuck in the brain.

"Half of the chopstick was totally stuck in his head from his nose. They only took out half of the chopstick and the other half was still stuck in it," Dr. Li Shaoyi, was quoted saying by The Christian Times.

After an extended stay at the hospital due to infection, the chid was sent home.

According to Tech Times, the boy was lucky as the chopstick did not affect his brain. It got wedged in the non-functional part of the brain, leaving the baby's speaking and other mental abilities intact. In a similar incident in the past, a two-year old baby's father found a chopstick had entered the baby's brain through the nose. The child had survived the ordeal.