'Electric' lolly chokes child
A two-year-old girl was rushed to hospital yesterday with a lollipop lodged in her throat and bits of wiring that could have come from an illuminated handle attached to the sweet floating in her stomach.
It was suspected by health officials that the lollipop with a handle that lights up was illegally imported from China.Amnuay Boontin and his wife Waranya discovered the lollipop lodged in their daughter Nathanont's throat when she started to struggle to breath late yesterday morning. At Lang Suan Hospital, doctors were able to remove the lollipop, but after taking X-rays of her stomach as a precaution were stunned to find two pieces of metal - one resembling an electric light filament and another resembling a paper clip. Health officials said a similar lollipop given to them by the parents, was not registered with the Food and Drug Administration. The Nation Chumphon
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