Did the Brazil boy has 50 sewing needles stuck inside body (AP)?”
Brazilian doctors say they have found as many as 50 sewing needles in the body of a 2-year-old boy and will operate soon to remove most of them. But Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski says some needles will stay inside the boy from northeastern Brazil because they are close to his liver and removal would be dangerous. Police are trying to determine how the needles got into the boy. Soltoski believes they were stuck into his body one by one. The mother has told police she doesn’t know how the needles got there. Some of the needles are stuck in the boy’s lungs and doctors on Wednesday were waiting for his breathing to improve so they can operate. The boy was admitted to a hospital Sunday.
A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said Wednesday they were apparently stuck there one by one. Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski told The Associated Press that surgeons hope to remove most of the needles — some as long as 2 inches (5 centimeters)_ but because some are stuck in his lungs, they have to wait until the child’s breathing improves. Some cannot be removed; they are too close to vital organs or actually inside them, Soltoski said. The boy’s mother, a maid, brought him to a hospital in the small northeastern city of Ibotirama on Thursday, saying he was complaining of pain. Three days later, after X-rays revealed some of the needles, doctors had him shifted to a larger hospital in Barreiras. The mother told police she doesn’t know how the needles got inside her son, but police have opened an investigation. The boy’s name was withheld because of his age. Soltoski said he believes the needles were stuck into his bo
