Doctor’s handy life hack frees child’s trapped tongue

They were under pressure to uncork the case
Pic of child with trapped tongue

It’s not often that wine and paediatric emergency medicine pair well together — unless it’s w(h)ine, which I’m sure this patient would have done had he not had his tongue trapped firmly inside a glass juice bottle.

At first, the seven-year-old’s parents had tried to free their son by pulling and twisting the object but, with no luck, presented to an ED in Germany an hour later.