Posted on 11/09/2005 8:18:13 AM PST by Mikey_1962
A teenage boy died of blood poisoning after getting his lip pierced, an inquest was told yesterday.
Daniel Hindle, 17, an A-level student from Richmond, Sheffield, had a ring put through his lip and his girlfriend had her eyebrow pierced.
His mother, Christine Anderson, broke down in the witness box as she told the inquest in Sheffield that the first she knew about the piercing was when her son walked through the door.
"My first reaction was shock. 'Eurgh,' I thought. I suppose it's a normal motherly reaction."
Mrs Anderson said she called a doctor when he developed a fever nearly two weeks later. The locum took two minutes to examine Daniel, before prescribing medicine for an upset stomach.
Two days later Daniel started hallucinating and was rushed to hospital. Mrs Anderson said her son had been born with a weak heart but was living a normal life.
She said she had talked to a doctor at the Northern General Hospital and added: "I thought it was something to do with his heart, but he told me Daniel had septicaemia.
"It was then that I told him about the lip piercing. He seemed to agree that that would be the cause."
Naomi Storey, 21, Daniel's girlfriend, told the jury that her piercing, at Body Poppers, had also become infected.
The piercer, Emma Thompson, denied breaking hygiene rules. The inquest continues.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes. Do we really want generation after generation of people stupid enough to allow a 10-year-old to have her parts pierced?
Or a 17 year old boy piercing his ear?
Of course. "Men" who want earrings? puh-leez!
Your argument is that the boy deserved to die because he chose to pierce his lip, correct?
Darwin awards are for people who die because of stupid or unduly risky choices, not because they "deserve" to die.
His good grades and not getting in trouble don't carry any weight? That's a fairly uninformed opinion to have.
Good grades and avoiding trouble are nice things, but have little bearing on overall stupidity. John Kerry avoided trouble and got good grades.
I'm not sure dying from an infected piercing makes one eligible for a Darwin award.
Maybe you're right about the Darwin Award having outlived its novelty.
What makes you think I'm happy some 17 year old kid died of an infection from a piercing?
But I do think getting body parts pierced or tatooed is grotesque, esthetically repugnant, barbaric, un-American and unhealthy. But that's my personal opinion and I'm entitled to it. If you or anyone else wants to get the Star-Spangled Banner engraved on your back complete with pierced grommets and flagstaff go ahead. Its a free country.
Would that be the same as our Nurse Practitioner??
Ear lobes, with nothing but skin and fat, if done under sterile conditions, present very few potential health problems.
Other parts of the anatomy present different circumstances and risks. Many are impossible to keep clean and prevent a route of entry for infection. Tongues and lips are examples. There are other, shall we say, more private places where that is also true.
Meanwhile, nerves and muscle tissue are also an issue.
This practice has more risks than rewards.
Not to mention it brands the user as an imbecile. Kids are expected to be stupid, but their parents should be ashamed of themselves.
Tattoos are a different subject, a short term mistake with long term consequences.
Could be any one. Nurse Practitioner woulf be the high end of the food chain. Let us hope it was an NP.
"Tongue and belly button piercings affect the digestive system."
Dying to Get Your Tongue Pierced?
A young woman in Connecticut got her tongue pierced. A couple of days later her tongue became sore and swollen. She also complained of a foul-tasting discharge from the pierced region. The young woman removed the stud from her tongue and the infection healed a few days later.
A month later, she suffered severe headaches, fever, nausea, and vomiting. The young woman was taken to Yale University hospital, where a head scan revealed that she had a brain abscess -- a localized collection of pus -- which physicians had to drain. The young woman recovered after six weeks of intravenous antibiotic treatment.
As reported in New Scientist magazine, Richard Martinello of Yale's medical school said that "this sort of brain abscess is very serious," theorizing that the blood carried enough bacteria from the tongue infection to cause the brain abscess. Although infections from body piercings are relatively common, this is the first brain abscess linked to any piercing. The tongue is particularly vulnerable to infections, Martinello explains, because the mouth is warm, moist, and full of bacteria.
Piercing your tongue? Different locations on the tongue stimulate different points. The center of your tongue stimulates a digestion point.
I couldn't agree more
Darwin Award nominee. What a freakin' moron.
On further study, I may be wrong. In Britain there is an institution called "Locum Tenens". In Latin, I believe it means, "holding in place of".
The following link may she somke light:http://www.studentdoc.com/locum-tenens.html
Could be a new MD or similar.
"a professional (typically a physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for a peer [from locum tenens]"
If most piercing do, in fact, heal over in time if a stud is removed, then they are less a "permanent reminder of a temporary state of mind" than a tattoo.
I also assume that if the appropriate sterilization rules are followed by the piercer and the person pierced does all of the required follow-up swabbing with hydrogen peroxide, then infection is probably a small risk.
That said, several years ago in Atlanta we had a co-ed at prominent private university decide to get her nipples pierced while her wealthy parents were out of the country. One became infected (err . . . one nipple, not one parent) with a particularly virulent staph infection; she required a radical mastectomy just shy of 20 years old. That didn't stop the infection. She ended up brain-dead, on life support until the hospital could locate the parents and obtain permission to cease life support (which the parents fought for several weeks, but that's another story).
Disgusting. That is the embodiment of self-hatred.
I hesitate to take this "down" a notch, do some googling on the "Prince Albert."
I experience anxiety and chills just thinking about someone else getting one of these.
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