Do you clean your barbecue with a wire brush?
If so, you might want to choose another method.
A woman and a paediatrician have sounded a warning after a young boy complained of acute ear pain after eating a burger at a family barbecue.
His parents took him off to a hospital emergency department but they found nothing and advised them to give him a painkiller and see an ear, nose and throat specialist. That person also found nothing.
Days later, with her son still not wanting to eat or drink and with a fever, the pair returned to emergency.
Again, an ear examination was totally normal, but the doctor on duty found some swelling on the right side of his throat and ordered a CAT scan.
Eureka.
The boy had a two centimetre metal wire, from a grill brush, lodged in the peritonsillar tissues and an abscess had developed.
Metal wire from the grill brush had become lodged in the hamburger.
Time to ditch that wire brush?
.