Toddler almost dies after contracting bacterial pneumonia from popcorn kernel that got stuck in his lung
A 2-year-old child almost died in a shocking incident after eating popcorn when one of the kernels got lodged in his lungs and ended up causing a bacterial infection that turned into pneumonia.
Nash Goddard choked on the snack for a brief moment but recovered almost immediately when he was watching a film with his parents at the family home in Denver, Colorado, on February 16. The following day, however, he developed a weird-sounding cough and then came down with a fever.
His 39-year-old mother Nicole Goddard tucked him into bed and immediately called the doctor who told her to take her son to the hospital immediately because of the concerning symptoms. Additional tests on the little boy showed that he had developed pneumonia from the pieces of aspirated popcorn, reported the Daily Mail.