Woman with a thermometer stuck in her hip for 22 years, remembering...
Sep 12, 2025
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According to Chinese media such as Sina Finance, a woman living in Wuhan, Hubei Province, visited the hospital on the 1st after suspected spinal disease due to pain in her back and hips when she fell while riding a bicycle last month.
CT scans revealed a piece of a glass thermometer on her hip behind her pelvis.
The sculpture, which is about 2 centimeters long, had remained in her body due to an accident in the classroom 22 years ago.
Hu recalled the moment when she was in elementary school, when she was trying to pick up an eraser that fell under her desk and sit down.
At the time, a friend next to me put a glass thermometer on the chair, and as Hu sat down, the thermometer was stuck on his left hip.
Later, the medical staff at the hospital removed the thermometer embedded in the buttocks. However, some pieces of glass have not been found. X-rays also showed no signs.
For 22 years, Hu has lived without knowing that a piece of thermometer is in his body.
"Fortunately, there appears to have been no risk of poisoning because it does not contain mercury," the doctor in charge said. "If there was mercury, serious health damage such as damage to the nervous system, vision loss, kidney and respiratory problems could have occurred.", he explained.
Hu `cried because it was too short when I took out the thermometer at the time. I knew something was wrong""I've been living normally ever since, but only this time did I know there was a real problem.""
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
