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 The x-ray photo of a Chinese boy’s brain that was punctured by a chopstick is unsettling. Yet it’s this image that finally allowed a medical team to understand why the child was vomiting and fatigued and ultimately save his life. 
 
 Hanhang, 1, was walking around with a chopstick when he tripped and fell, according to CEN. 
 
 The long stick drove up his nose and his parents quickly removed the object and took him to the hospital. 
 
 Doctors examined Hanhang and failed to notice that the chopstick had punctured the brain and small pieces were still lodged in his head. 
 
 “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,” Yu Liao, Hanhang’s 25-year-old mom told CEN. 
 
 “But we had no idea there was still one inside of his head,” she said. 
 
 At home, Hanhang’s condition worsened as he repeatedly vomited and was noticeably lethargic. 
 
 His parents brought him back to the hospital where doctors ordered an X-ray and discovered the chopstick piece. 
 
 “We were beside ourselves with worry,” Liao said. 
 
 “After removing the remaining six centimeters his condition improved immediately, but he does have a brain infection so will be staying in the hospital for further treatment,” Dr. Li Shaovi told CEN. 
 
 Kids and chopsticks can be a dangerous combination. A 2-year-old Chinese boy stuck a chopstick in his nose last year and it penetrated three inches into his brain. Doctors spent four hours carefully removing it. Also, last year a 12-year-old Chinese boy was running across a school playground when he fell over onto a pair of chopsticks in his hand. The sticks penetrated his neck and the boy underwent surgery to remove them. 
 
 Note to parents: Chopsticks are to only be handled by children sitting at the dinner table. ||||| A baby in China went 10 days with a chopstick stuck up his nose, which punctured his brain and caused an infection because nobody noticed, Central European News reported. 
 
 Hanhang, 1, was eating chow mein with his parents in Chaoyang City when he tripped and fell, sending the object up his nose, CEN reported. 
 
 His parents removed the chopstick and rushed him to the hospital for further treatment where doctors failed to notice additional pieces of the object penetrating his brain, according to the report. 
 
 “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,” Yu Liao, Hanhang’s 25-year-old mom told CEN. 
 
 “But we had no idea there was still one inside of his head,” she said. 
 
 Hanhang began vomiting and showing signs of drowsiness, prompting his parents to bring him to the hospital for a second time, Liao told CEN. It was then that doctors noticed the piece of chopstick in his brain. 
 
 “We were beside ourselves with worry,” Liao said. 
 
 “After removing the remaining six centimeters his condition improved immediately, but he does have a brain infection so will be staying in the hospital for further treatment,” Dr. Li Shaovi told CEN. 
 
 “Luckily it did not affect him much.” ||||| A ‘miracle baby’ in China that survived despite being born at just 23 weeks has managed to live through her first week of care. 
 
 The tiny baby girl, who is now eight days old, was born last week in Chongqing, southwest China, after doctors performed an emergency operation to correct a problem with her mother’s cervix. 
 
 Before the operation, doctors warned the child’s parents that the baby would be born severely premature and would have next to no chance of survival. 
 
 Yet despite the doctor’s bleak forebodings, the baby lived through the operation. Chief of Paediatrics at the Chongqing Southwest Hospital said that the fact the baby survived a “spontaneous abortion” was very rare, as it is almost impossible for a baby to live through something like this. 
 
 The baby, who weighs just 660 grams and measures 28 cm, was taken straight to an incubator after the operation and is currently receiving around the clock care. 
 
 Due to the baby being born so early, medical staff have said that the baby’s organs and veins have are yet to fully develop and this has caused some complications in giving the baby girl the correct medication and nutrients. 
 
 The ‘miracle baby girl’ has been named ‘chopstick girl’ by local Chinese media because she is the same height as she is the same height as a chopstick.
– He's OK now, but a toddler in China went 10 days with part of a chopstick in his brain. It seems young Hanhang tripped and fell with the chopstick in his hand, and it went straight up his nose, according to a report by Central European News spotted by Fox. His parents saw it happen, removed the chopstick—or so they thought—and took him to the hospital to be safe. Unfortunately, doctors sent him home without realizing that about 2 inches of the chopstick had broken off and was still inside. “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,” says his mother, Yu Liao. When the boy grew increasingly lethargic and sick, his parents brought him back, and only then did an X-ray reveal the reason. Hanhang showed immediate improvement once it was removed. The Mommy Files blog at the San Francisco Chronicle rounds up two similar stories and concludes, "Note to parents: Chopsticks are to only be handled by children sitting at the dinner table." (The X-ray calls to mind another strange case, this one involving a nail gun.)