VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors from the HCM City-based Children’s Hospital 1 have just taken out a beetle from the lung of a seven-year-old boy from the Central Highland province of Lam Dong. Doctors said that this is a rare accident. After nearly one month suffering from a cough and fever, the boy’s mother brought her son to a local health station when the symptoms didn’t ease up. At the district hospital, the boy was diagnosed with pulmonary oedema. Doctors sucked out the fluid and treated the boy with antibiotics but he didn’t recover.

At the Children’s Hospital 1, the child suffered from serious pneumonia. An X-ray scan revealed pulmonary oedema. Doctors cured the boy based on these symptoms but the situation was not improved. While taking a CT scan, doctors discovered a strange object in the patient’s lung. They took out a dead beetle from the lung. Doctors said that this was a very rare accident. Ten days after the beetle was taken out, the boy recovered and left the hospital.