Boy Forced To Eat Over 100 Tadpoles
“I was so scared that the tadpoles will become frogs in my stomach?”
Pang Pang, a 9 year-old kid from China, swallowed over 100 tadpoles in an effort to cure his rash.
His grandmother had overheard from neighbors that this was a good treatment for a rash. She went right out to the local pond and grabbed a bowl full of tadpoles for her grandson. She then forced the boy to swallow 20 per day for a week.
After about 4 days Pang Pang became ill and went to the doctor. Although he was treated by the doctor, the boy was still worried that he might grow frogs in his stomach.
The Chinese do use tadpoles for medical purposes but only externally and they have to be prepared in a specific way.
Poor kid will probably never listen to his grandmother again… who apparently is naive and gullible.
(Sohu)
The boy got lucky it was not monkey sh#t.
What worry with grand mama may be she forgot her meds?
what wrong with grand mama may she forgot her meds.
That’s just not enough tadpoles, they are so tiny, gotta bump it up to like 1000 or so for a real wow factor.
Maybe they should have got him to swallow some live goldfish to eat the tadpoles……
I heard eating live bats does wonders for rashes. The boy might want to give that a try.
the news was shown last week and i felt so sorry for him, it is not becoz of the tadpoles but virus inside the tadpoles.
My grandmother used to make me eat all kinds of things because, “she read somewhere it would make me feel better”.
If this boy’s grandmother is the matriarch of the family, he really didn’t have much of a choice in doing what she said, she is the leader of the family-what she says is law.
Even if some cortizone cream would have worked better.
Aww… I felt so sorry for that boy…
Ha, my grandma does that sometimes, except not with tadpoles, always telling me to eat this and that to make me stronger cuz she said she “read it in the paper”. Ah well, could’ve been worse, tadpoles aren’t that bad compared to say, live goldfish.
stupid grandmother. stupid neighbours. nuff said.
hmm.. I wonder if the grandma has any trauma for ointments.. XD
Sure he got ill, but did the rash go away or not?
but they also use cockroaches for medication, so .. that won’t be surprising for me o_o;
poor boy
Na, they got it all wrong. You have to deep fry the toads when there big and plump. I dont think it cures anything but it tastes pretty good. Not like frog, you can just chew up a frogs rubbery leg, toads are more boney and taste like a combination of fish and chicken.
0_0 He could of swallowed leeches…worse than tadpoles don’cha think??