A 12-YEAR-OLD pupil almost lost a finger due to a severe infection after accidentally pricking herself with a Jalur Gemilang badge in her pocket, China Press reported.
According to her mother, Jy Christy, the girl developed a fever, at the end of June, shortly after pricking her right ring finger.
Initially, a doctor misdiagnosed her condition as a common cold.
However, days later, the girl’s finger and knee began to swell.
A second doctor then suggested it might be an allergic reaction to medication.
Christy sought a third opinion. The doctor warned her that her daughter had an infection and could lose her finger without immediate treatment.
“We thought it was just an allergy to the medicine she was given. But now, we were told she could lose her finger from a bacterial infection,” Christy said.
The girl was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with Group A Streptococcus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae before receiving emergency surgery to drain pus from her finger.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item
