Boy Gets Chopstick Stuck Up Nose for 10 Days, Gets Brain Infection, Recovering After Undergoing Surgery

An infant in Chaoyang City in China underwent surgery on Tuesday as surgeons removed a 2.4-inch chopstick that got stuck in his head for 10 days due to an accident.

The one-year-old boy, identified as Hanyang, accidentally fell and got a chopstick stuck in his nose last Jan. 27, according to his parents, who quickly brought him to a hospital.

The doctor removed the chopstick stuck in the infant's nose and told the parents to observe him at home. He did not bother to subject the child to an X-ray examination, according to reports.

"When we got home after our first visit to the hospital, my husband broke all the chopsticks in half and threw them away as we were worried something like this could happen again," said Yu Liao, Hanyang mother, according to Fox News and Central European News.

After 10 days, the child started showing symptoms of mental fatigue and drowsiness. He was brought back to the hospital where it was discovered that a part of the chopstick was still embedded inside his nose. Surgeons promptly removed the foreign object inside the child's nose.

Doctors at Shengjing Hospital of the China Medical University said the boy was admitted with brain infection.

"Half of the chopstick was totally stuck in his head from his nose," said attending doctor Li Shaoyi, according to CCTV America. "They only took out half of the chopstick and the other half was still stuck in it."

The boy's condition improved after the operation but the chopstick resulted in serious infection in his head, requiring him to stay longer in the hospital.

"We were beside ourselves with worry," Liao said.

"[The incident] did not affect him much," Li was quoted as saying. "His body move or language ability was all functional. That was why his family did not realize [he still had a piece of chopstick inside his nose]. It coincidentally stuck in the non-functional area [of his brain]," the doctor said.