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.
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Oh gross! That poor boy, and why his grandmother would do something like that based on a rumor from a neighbor is beyond me!

Poor kid...thats gross

Granny should have consulted as to how to use them.

ewwww....

100 tadpoles ? that's too much! maybe 10 will be fine.

remind me when my mom tell my brother to drink worm juice ha-ha

Well it was done in China again, so I'm not surprised...

I think that's cute when little kids think like that. I remember when I was younger and thought that if I swallowed watermelon seeds that a watermelon would grow in my tummy. Of course, now that I'm older and a student of the sciences, I know that could never happen.

i tell ya what, they do some weird stuff over in china. wasn't there a thread here somewhere about some folks sticking a bunch of needles into some little girl because she wasn't born a boy or something like that. . . . .

Where was this again?

Oh yeah....

Never let that kid (or his gran) see or hear about this...

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...p;hl=grass+lung

--Jaylemurph

These poor tadpoles. They didn't deserve to die like that. ;_;

I hope they cure his rash.

DAMN - that's nasty. a friend of mine claims that his grand parents cleared some land & chopped down a bunch of poison ivy, poison oak & poison sumak. they piled it all up & burned it. from breathing in the smoke, they got that sh!t in their lungs & it almost killed them. had to be hospitalized and given massive doses of steroids to overcome it. ever heard of such a thing???

I have, actually. Same thing happened to some distant relative of mine.

--Jaylemurph

really - i always kinda thought it was bullsh!t. glad to hear he didn't make it up. cool - thanks.

I guess in thoery it could happen. If the fire got hot enough to vaporize the oils in poison oak, sumac, and ivy, and it condensed when it entered their lungs, it could cause poison ivy/sumac/oak in the lungs and airways.

Note to self: don't burn poison ivy.

That's pretty nasty. I feel soo sorry for that little kid. Parents and granparents think they always know what's best for the children but 90% of the time they are wrong...
I burned my hand on an elment of the stove, so instead of putting my hand under cold water like you're supposed to, my mom put my hand in butter... talk about a painful experience!!

my mom put toothpaste

hmmm - i always heard to use the butter too.

Ewww, nasty granny... tadpoles? UGH.

Yea I remember the grass in the lung thread...bizarre.

OMG the poision ivy, oak, sumak thing is SO true!!!!! I am EXTREMELY ALLERGIC to the Bahamian "Poision" - **az dey callit mon. ** OMG it is SO TRUE - NEVER burn it. Also, since I'm highly allergic; I was told to be careful after walking my dogs; if they run through the "bush" the poision oils can get onto their coat/fur. I don't think the dogs actually get "the poision" like a human does; but if you PET where the oils are on their fur it can be transmitted to you. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I believe the "butter" theory for burns is an old wives tale. I was told the best thing to do is keep whatever is burned under the coldest water possible. The cold water prevents the skin from burning down to the next level of the dermis' anyway, I'm not doctor .


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Surely eating that much tadpoles, is, a tad unhealthy.

Don't do it, it would be like using your hand as a frying pan - bloody painful

Coldest water is best, I have stuck my hand in the freezer when I have burnt it on the iron or on the rack of the oven at times, takes all the heat out of it when you rub an ice cube over the burn too.

Burning plants whose touch is poisonous can be harmful, indeed.
When I was a survival instructor back in the 1970s, this was one of the things we used to tell folks just as a matter of interest. At that time, there were ample instances of people burning poison sumac, oak or ivy and getting "bit" by the smoke. The degree of harm depends upon the exposure.
And here's a few guidelines to remember about plants, as red flags of toxicity:

Leaves 3, let it be --- Poison ivy, sumac and oak all have structures wherein three leaves join at a common stem.
If the plant's sap is milky, it may be poisonous.
Blue or black berrries are almost always edible.
Red berries are edible in about 50 percent of the cases.
White berries are rarely edible. Nearly all are toxic.
If a plant tastes bitter or burns your mouth, even with just the tiniest amount, it's almost certainly poisonous. Leave it alone.
Some plants are exceedingly toxic. Water hemlock, which grows in damp places and along streams and rivers, can kill you. You need only eat a piece half the size of your little fingernail to be killed.
And don't think poisonous plants are all in the woods. Just a few months ago, in Salt Lake City, Utah, I noticed a small stand of water hemlock growing in a marshy area next to the railroad tracks. This was in downtown Salt Lake City, with industrial buildings all around.

Gatofeo, you are right about about poisonous plants sometimes being places other than the woods.

When my aunt moved into her house many years back, she discovered a Deadly Nightshade plant in the back garden, her kids were little then too, good job she spotted it.

Sore throat?

Try some slimy baby frogs.

Its all the fun of taking cough medicine, with dozens of wriggling creatures going through your body.

great info - thanks

I bet he's relieved he didn't have the rash a couple of weeks earlier, he would have had to eat frog sporn.