A boy was nearly blinded after a freak accident left part of a chopstick embedded in his eye.
According to The Star Online, the 13-year-old boy, See Jing Yang, was playing with his brother at their family home in Klang when he fell and hit his eye, causing it to swell up.
Jing Yang’s mother immediately rushed him to the clinic, but was told by the doctors to bring him to the hospital instead.
“I rushed him to a nearby private hospital and was shocked when informed that a CT scan showed a 6cm object embedded in the eye,” Yoong Siat Kian, 48, told the news portal.
At the hospital, ophthalmologist Dr Narendran Muthukrishnan found a piece of broken wooden chopstick embedded in the boy’s left eye.
Dr Narendran told The Star that the chopstick had gone right through the eye cavity and into the sinus, with the tip coming through the nasal cavity.
He added that if the chopstick’s entry wasn’t deflected, the boy would have lost his eye.
The medical team reportedly released the object from the nose and then proceeded to remove it from the eye.
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