HARTFORD, Conn. (CNN) — Medical authorities in Hartford, Connecticut said a six-year-old boy who swallowed a thumbtack should be released from the hospital Friday.
His parents said the child swallowed the tack before Christmas after watching a YouTube video that showed a man pushing nails up his nose and then spitting them out of his mouth.
His parents didn’t understand what he had done until three weeks later.
They took him to the emergency room and learned there was a tack in his lungs, not far from his heart, which had caused an infection.
His parents said the situation should serve as a warning to other parents.