the young man is carrying a mercury-filled thermometer that he swallowed as a child 20 years ago.
Sanchita chatterjee: The severe stomach pain did not subside. He went to the hospital, and what the doctor said after the examination shocked the Chinese young man and his family. It is reported that the young man is carrying a mercury-filled thermometer that he swallowed as a child 20 years ago. Wang (pseudonym), a resident of Wenzhou City in southeast China's Zhejiang Province, went to the Longgang Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University for treatment. A scan at the hospital found an abnormal object in his duodenum, or the first part of the small intestine. Doctors initially thought it was a mercury-filled thermometer. Doctors said that the head of the thermometer was pressing directly on the intestinal wall. This risked perforation of the intestine and serious internal bleeding. Wang told doctors that he accidentally swallowed the thermometer when he was 12 years old. However, he was afraid and did not tell his parents about it. At that time...