Iron Man, a piece of metal embedded in the body, attempts to remove it with a magnet
Jul 01, 2024
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According to local media such as Jimu News and China Dotcom, Kang, who worked at a factory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, was hit with fragments when the mechanical shaft exploded on the 23rd.
The thigh pain was particularly severe, and when I looked at it, I found that five 'holes' of different sizes were formed.
Fragments had penetrated the skin and stuck in the flesh.
But rather than going to the hospital, he tried to use a strong magnet to pull out the pieces of metal. It reminded me of a scene from the movie Iron Man.
However, even after trying for a long time, the metal pieces did not fall out, and his legs hurt more and more, so he eventually went to the hospital's emergency room.
CT scans revealed four foreign bodies within soft tissue inside his right thigh and knee joint. They were embedded pieces of iron.
The medical staff rushed through the operation, removing all four pieces of iron, and restoring damaged muscles, ligaments, and nerves.
The doctor in charge of the surgery explained that if a piece of iron remains in the muscle for a long time, it can continuously stimulate surrounding tissues to cause chronic inflammatory reactions, cause local tissue proliferation and fibrosis, adversely affecting the normal function of the muscle and limiting physical activity.
In addition, if the iron powder is not removed properly, it can gradually move during muscle contraction and movement, stabbing deep blood vessels and nerves, causing severe bleeding, pain and nerve dysfunction, or even quadriplegia, helplessness or paralysisAs a result, bacteria can spread throughout the body through the blood circulation, causing systemic infections such as sepsis and life-threatening" he warned.
Therefore, he advised that appropriate protective equipment such as safety glasses and protective clothing should be worn at workplaces that may be exposed to foreign substances such as iron powder.
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