Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, shared her story of treating one of these wire grill brush injuries in a now-viral TikTok video.
, posted the video in February and it has garnered over 40 million views so far. “One of my most interesting cases has a lesson that could save your life," she wrote in the caption.
When the pain still hadn't subsided a few days later, the boy's family took him back to the hospital, says Martin. Doctors did a CT scan without contrast of his mastoid area next to his ear and couldn't find anything, she says, so he was sent back home. "At that point he'd started to develop a small infection around it, which is the body's response to that foreign object, but we were able to get it out and he had a complete recovery," says Martin.
According to a study published in 2016 journal Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, barbecue brushes caused an estimated 1,698 emergency room visits from 2002 to 2014,When barbecue brush injuries do occur, Martin says it is more common to see the bristles lodged in the mouth or throat — but they can end up anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach and intestines.
“Even just developing a abscess like the 4-year-old in our case, had it developed into the space where his airway and other important blood vessels are, it could be life-threatening, especially if it goes undetected,” she adds.
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