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.
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By Mui Mui on 23-09-2007
Comment by darkwing duck
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
The boy got lucky it was not monkey sh#t.
What worry with grand mama may be she forgot her meds?
Comment by darkwing duck
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
what wrong with grand mama may she forgot her meds.
Comment by Jeremy
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
That’s just not enough tadpoles, they are so tiny, gotta bump it up to like 1000 or so for a real wow factor.
Comment by Casual Adventurer
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Maybe they should have got him to swallow some live goldfish to eat the tadpoles……
Comment by /chris
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I heard eating live bats does wonders for rashes. The boy might want to give that a try.
Comment by littleoslo
September 24th, 2007 at 2:13 am
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.
Comment by Trish
September 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am
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.
Comment by Heather
September 24th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Aww… I felt so sorry for that boy…
Comment by gee-man
September 25th, 2007 at 12:20 am
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.
Comment by Eug
September 25th, 2007 at 4:43 am
stupid grandmother. stupid neighbours. nuff said.
Comment by anonymousgirl
October 9th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
hmm.. I wonder if the grandma has any trauma for ointments.. XD
Comment by kp
October 14th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Sure he got ill, but did the rash go away or not?
Comment by kikie
December 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
but they also use cockroaches for medication, so .. that won’t be surprising for me o_o;
Comment by Dawn Tran
December 8th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
poor boy
Comment by Wally
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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.
Comment by luckylife333
May 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
0_0 He could of swallowed leeches…worse than tadpoles don’cha think??
Comment by sOME1
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 am
EVIL GRANDMAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!