Mr. Han, from Zhoukou city in China, was worried about his 10-month-old daughters health. She was diagnosed with Pneumonia but was not recovering.
The Hostpital at Zhengzhou University checked out the girl and diagnosed her with a rare complication of pneumonia called Pyopneumothorax.
After numerous treatments the little girl was still not improving so the doctors decided surgery was the only option. However surgery revealed something even the doctors had never seen before.
“We were surprised to find a 3cm piece of grass growing on the baby’s right lung,” said chief surgeon Li Qun.
Mr. and Mrs. Han claim that the grass is the same kind growing outside of their home and the doctors determined that the baby must have inhaled some grass seed into her lungs. The seed, finding the environment suitable, started to grow.
They removed the grass and the little girl’s health improved and she recovered from her illness.
(Ananova)
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poor kid
Trish
Scary
J
Can we please make it a habit to cite sources going forward? That would make the story much more credible.
Sun Tzu
Um.. there is a source..
D
“going forward?” Jeez, you must be a middle manager. That particular phrase of buzzspeak makes my stomach turn. Just say “in the future” you sound like much less of a douche. BTW, Where are my TPS reports?
AyeRoxor
I believe you have my stapler…
Bill
You are clearly not getting with the program, this is a BLOG. And according to Internet law, anything that appear on a BLOG is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God!
God
I don't exist. Go reavaluate your life.
Trish
Hey all, acording to my medical resources, Pyponeumothorax is not a recognized medical problem! In fact, the only referances to the condition lead back to this page. What in Hades name did they do to this little girl?
bloggo
pyopneumothorax: collection of pus in the space formed in between the surface of the lung and the inside of the chest wall. Somehow there must have been air leaking into this space from the lung tissue itself secondary to the pneumonia. Treatment usually surgical, to drain the pus. Sources: various medical books.
spinmonkey
py·o·pneu·mo·tho·rax (p-nm-thôrks)
n.
The presence of gas and pus in the pleural cavity. Also called pneumopyothorax.
gee-man
Wow, that’s gotta suck. Just imagine what would’ve happend if it had continued to grow.
Jimi
I don’t even want to imagine that. That would have turned into some major pain if it would have kept growing.
charlie
Uhmmmm… grass = chemoautotroph = Needs sunlight to run photosynthesis = cell growth… yeaaah… dark lungs = no sunlight…
Jarandhel
But does it need sunlight to sprout from seed? Seeds are usually capable of sprouting while buried, which presumably means no light is reaching them.
Yacker
But they said it was 3cm long.
me
ever heard of cellular respiration? next time get ur facts stright before spouting crap.
mzerach
Hybrid grass that escaped from a genetics lab, from where the chinese are developing a method for their soldiers to get an oxygen boost under combat situtaions or when under water. The grass converts the CO2 to O2 at 1:5 ratio allowing the soldiers to increase endurance and hide under water for many hours.
ryan
haha.. well played
Paul
Grass, as most plants require photosynthesis to grow/stay alive. Photosynthesis requires sunlight…direct sunlight. Basically the story is biologically impossible to be real.
Jarandhel
But does it need sunlight to sprout from seed? Seeds are usually capable of sprouting while buried, which presumably means no light is reaching them.
dyingtoknow
a photo of the grass when it was still in the lungs would make this story more real …
johnww2
For those amateur scientists who declare grass seed cannot grow without light:
How do seeds underground manage to grow enough to pop out of the soil?
The goal of a seed is to contain enough energy and enough protection to survive a harsh environment until it changes to a warm moist one. Then the seed uses the stored energy to begin to grow enough that it can deploy a large enough surface area to begin photosynthesis.
It is totally possible for this to occur in a lung. Sure, after the initial growth, lack of light would probably lead to a short life for the sprout, but even if it dies it continues to be a foreign body irritating the lung tissue.
onewhoknows
Somebody (I would suspect from the author on down) has been smoking waaaayyyy too much “grass” 🙂
starfire
seeds sprout with no sunlight but they need watera nd sunlight to drow, clearly the grass in her lungs was getting both the question is how?
or perhaps the question should be is the story completely unreal
its pretty amazing if its not made up
jason
A grass seed doesn’t contain much nutrients (vs a mango/durian seed) doubt it can reach 3 cm as claimed in the article without sunlight
John
If it couldn’t reach 3 cm in length without sunlight how would any grass grow? That’s the average size, from the root on up, of the sprout of various breeds of long grass. Keep in mind that plants go into the ground, hiding a part of them. The little blade would have died shortly, but it can get to that size.
Jimmy Willis
Lies, grass needs sunlight to grow. Duh
me
no it doesnt. plants can grow using cellular respiration ( they breath in oxygen and put off carbon dioxide) . its used when sunlight is not available you dumb shits need to go back to school.
Solanum Tuberosum
About the gras and light thing: Grass doesn’t need light to GERMINATE! It can sprout some just on it’s own internal resources. However, in order to keep on growing, it needs light. It would probably wither up and die if it didn’t get any light for more than a week. It would probably be really hard to get any light in your lungs too, so I think the grass either just died, or it was going to die soon.
Jason
I find it funny how people don’t seem to bother to read even the first and last comment before making a post…
“If it couldn’t reach 3 cm in length without sunlight how would any grass grow? That’s the average size, from the root on up, of the sprout of various breeds of long grass. Keep in mind that plants go into the ground, hiding a part of them. The little blade would have died shortly, but it can get to that size.”
“The goal of a seed is to contain enough energy and enough protection to survive a harsh environment until it changes to a warm moist one. Then the seed uses the stored energy to begin to grow enough that it can deploy a large enough surface area to begin photosynthesis.
It is totally possible for this to occur in a lung. Sure, after the initial growth, lack of light would probably lead to a short life for the sprout, but even if it dies it continues to be a foreign body irritating the lung tissue.”
“But does it need sunlight to sprout from seed? Seeds are usually capable of sprouting while buried, which presumably means no light is reaching them.”
etc
mike
How about this for a rebuttal:
The girl in the photo is Jessica Zhao, child of Junwei Zhao of Stanford University.
link:
http://sun.stanford.edu/~junwei/jessica6.html
she is 1yr, and 3-6mo old in that photo. She lives in California.
I know nothing in the article claims that the picture is of the grass-lung girl, but I think a picture in article usually insinuates it.
beeurd
well, I wouldn’t call Ananova a particularly reliable source anyway… so, yeah. lol
buyusediphone.com
if you don’t consider how it can be scientifically interesting the only thing to say is ‘poor girl’…
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u suck ppl
Anz
could it be that her parents had sex in the garden and accidentally input a piece of grass to the embryo.. 😀
brooke eriss
u r… ur…. ur disgusting!!!!!!
chingkulingkang
that could be possible, now don’t do it in the garden
Dan
hi, this article was both informative and interesting….and dumb.
Bubba
kid is getting an early start on going green
Susan LoBiondo Patraw
Beth Rapp
Susan LoBiondo Patraw
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Beth Rapp
vwery interesting –thx Sue –I especially liked the picture of the Fundies ad (undies men and women wear together) LMAO
Maria Brocco
Hello Susan …I think the late time… I was on here U had an operation,how are U feeling..I hope good…
Beth Rapp
wow very interesting thx Sue –I especially like the picture ad for the Fundies while I was reading LMAO.
Susan LoBiondo Patraw
It’s Weird Asian News,,,LOL