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Teen Gets Emergency Surgery After Swallowing Grill Brush Bristle During Backyard Barbecue
Doctors removed about three inches of his bowel after the metal bristle punctured his intestine, and the family urged safer grill-cleaning alternatives.
- On May 26, Noah Walden unknowingly swallowed a wire bristle from a grill brush while eating a hamburger at his Stillwater home, requiring emergency surgery on June 4 to remove 3 inches of his bowel.
- After three days of worsening stomach pain, Walden went to the hospital on June 3, where a CT scan revealed the metal bristle had lodged in his bowel and begun puncturing his intestine.
- Amie Walden, his mother, urged families to discard wire brushes immediately after learning the cause, while the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 13 million Weber and Nexgrill wire brushes earlier this year.
- Surgeons performed the operation through a 6 inch incision in his abdomen to repair the damaged intestine, as The Waldens hope sharing his story prevents other families from facing similar medical emergencies.
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends switching to non-wire alternatives like wooden scrapers, steam cleaners, or rolled-up aluminum foil to eliminate the risk of swallowing dangerous metal fragments during backyard barbecues.
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He ate two burgers during a barbecue with his family without noticing that he swallowed a tiny metal bristles. A week later he found himself in the hospital with a severe abdominal pain and had to undergo emergency surgery in which the doctors removed a tract of intestine. Noah Walden, 17 years old from Stillwater, Minnesota, told the story, taken from People, to the local WCCO and KSTP stations. The barbecue took place on the occasion of Memori…
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