Boy dies after swallowing firework: Report

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A six-year-old boy died in Durban after swallowing a firework during the Diwali festival, The Star reported on Thursday.

Tyreece Jordan Naicker swallowed the firework on Sunday morning but only told his mother later that day.

She made him regurgitate and found a piece of the firework. He was rushed to hospital where he later died, the newspaper reported.

The boy's uncle, Ronnie Naicker, said he was not certain what the firework was called and how much he had swallowed.

The tip of the firework has to be rubbed on the floor to ignite, in a similar way to striking a match. The firework lets off a fountain of sparks.

Naicker told the newspaper that the boy, who attended primary school, was his normal self the entire Sunday evening but took a bad turn on Monday.


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Date : 07 Nov 2013 08:41
 
Those who wished for a kid to get their fingers blown off got a better deal than they expected.
 
Those who wished for a kid to get their fingers blown off got a better deal than they expected.

Watch this thread turn into a fire-work bashing thread instead of sympathy for the family and child
 
I might be missing something, but the report doesn't state how the boy died. Was the fireworks poisonous? Did they explode inside him?
 
I find it odd that she tried to make him regurgitate it instead of, you know, rushing him to straight to the hospital where they would've, at least, pumped his stomach...

Shame... horrible story :(

But again, points to why children should always be supervised around fireworks...
 
My cousin lost two fingers to fireworks when he was a kid.
 
Sad man. I think most kids have made mistakes with fireworks. I once burned myself too. Happens..
 
I actually knew the parents of this kid. The kid ate the firework 2 days before Diwali. He vomited out the gunpowder and filling from the firework the same day. He seemed ok for 2 days then suddenly took a turn for the worse and died.
 
This is just sad. One would expect death by toxin(which this seems to be) to be slow enough to allow ample time to reach the hospital. Seems like his initial symptoms were quite misleading as to the severity of the toxin.
 
I find it odd that she tried to make him regurgitate it instead of, you know, rushing him to straight to the hospital where they would've, at least, pumped his stomach...

Shame... horrible story :(

But again, points to why children should always be supervised around fireworks...

Lesson here, apart from the supervision thing (and don't leave anything lying around ever) is, know your poison control centre's number and call them when you suspect a kid's eaten ANYTHING dangerous.

Poison Information Centres:
In case of poisoning, contact the poison control centre immediately as emergency steps need to be taken before leaving for the hospital.

Gauteng
Unitas (toll free) 0800 111 229
Western Cape
Red Cross Children's Hospital: 021 689 5227
Tygerberg Hospital: 021 931 6129
Kwazulu-Natal
Saint Augustine's Hospital Durban (toll free): 0800 333 444
Orange Free State
Universities (Poison Centre): 051 401 3111
 
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