4-year-old kid swallowed plastic stick of lollipop

Dayton, Texas — The 4-year-old son of a family in Texas swallowed a plastic stick in a lollipop.     

It happened last month and Mason was eating a lollipop. His family said he suddenly started crying, and when his father checked out the problem, he found that the boy accidentally inhaled the whole lollipop, including the plastic stick. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital, but was told that the lollipop would disappear by itself. "This is a hard plastic stick, not a paper stick," said Katrina Burnett, the boy's mother. "It won't dissolve in his stomach. They did a chest X-ray to make sure he didn't inhale it into his lungs, and then they sent us home." Mason had a fever that night, so his mother, father and stepmother took him to another emergency room. Burnett said: "This is something you never want to see happen to a child." "Always. That's the most difficult thing for me."    

Three hospitals, countless X-ray examinations, two weeks later, Mason still did not discharge the plastic stick. According to family members, he endured partial lung failure and aspiration pneumonia before finally getting help from Texas Women's Hospital. "They found a four-inches stick stucked in the body, not in his intestines, but in the small area between his stomach and intestines, it was eroding his intestines," his mother said. Although he must be relaxed at school and between his friends, Mason has stood up again. Burnett hopes that her son's tragic accident can teach families around the world.     

"Don't let them eat lollipops without you present. If you know that your baby has a problem, you are the parents and you are their advocates," she said. "You need to do anything to make sure they are okay, because no one knows your child like you. I don't want this to happen to another child."

Compared with plastic rods, paper sticks have new safety features. The paper stick will soften and dissolve under the action of stomach acid, and will not scratch or irritate children's intestines and stomach. At the same time, the paper sticks are easily degraded in the natural environment and will not harm the animals in the environment. The paper stick making machine is the important part in the paper stick production line. Paper stick machine is simple to operate and highly efficient. It can produce paper sticks of different size to replace the plastic sticks in the lollipops. At the same time, the paper sticks produced by the paper stick making machine can also be used for cotton swabs/cotton buds to reduce the use and pollution of plastics. Shantou Jiechi Machinery Co., Ltd. mainly produces paper stick making machines and supporting equipment for paper stick production.