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04/05/2010
Teen Tongue Piercing Surgery Shock
A tongue piercing lead to emergency surgery for a 15-year-old girl.
Reece-Marie Hall was taken by ambulance to Hull Royal Infirmary after a vein apparently ruptured.
The girl paid £15 for a silver bar piercing at Classic, in Saville Street, Hull city centre to celebrate her birthday.
But the 15-year-old, of north Hull, was left with blood dripping from her mouth.
She told the Daily Mail "At first my tongue didn't bleed, but after I left the shop my tongue started pouring with blood. I kept choking."
Reece-Marie returned to the piercing shop, where staff gave her some gauze.
She later called into Body Art in Princes Quay Shopping Centre, where she was earlier refused a piercing because she did not have parental consent.
Staff instructed her to go to hospital.
When Reece-Marie arrived home her mother called an ambulance and she was taken to hospital.
Reece-marie's Mother, Leanne Hall said: "I had a phone call off the surgeon saying I would have to come down straightaway and sign a consent form for surgery.
"When I got there I nearly passed out there was so much blood."
"Reece-Marie now has a lisp and I can't always understand what she's saying. I hope it isn't a permanent thing," she added.
Reece-Marie, who also has trouble eating following her ordeal, is on three types of medication.
She said: "I am taking iron because I lost too much blood and I am also on antibiotics and paracetamol.
"My tongue is not as swollen as it was, but it has stitches in it and it's very painful."
The family is considering suing the piercing parlour but its owner claims the teenager must have "interfered" with the piercing after she left the shop.
There is no minimum legal age for body piercing in the UK, but local authorities in Hull urge parental consent for under-16s.
(LB/BMcC)
Reece-Marie Hall was taken by ambulance to Hull Royal Infirmary after a vein apparently ruptured.
The girl paid £15 for a silver bar piercing at Classic, in Saville Street, Hull city centre to celebrate her birthday.
But the 15-year-old, of north Hull, was left with blood dripping from her mouth.
She told the Daily Mail "At first my tongue didn't bleed, but after I left the shop my tongue started pouring with blood. I kept choking."
Reece-Marie returned to the piercing shop, where staff gave her some gauze.
She later called into Body Art in Princes Quay Shopping Centre, where she was earlier refused a piercing because she did not have parental consent.
Staff instructed her to go to hospital.
When Reece-Marie arrived home her mother called an ambulance and she was taken to hospital.
Reece-marie's Mother, Leanne Hall said: "I had a phone call off the surgeon saying I would have to come down straightaway and sign a consent form for surgery.
"When I got there I nearly passed out there was so much blood."
"Reece-Marie now has a lisp and I can't always understand what she's saying. I hope it isn't a permanent thing," she added.
Reece-Marie, who also has trouble eating following her ordeal, is on three types of medication.
She said: "I am taking iron because I lost too much blood and I am also on antibiotics and paracetamol.
"My tongue is not as swollen as it was, but it has stitches in it and it's very painful."
The family is considering suing the piercing parlour but its owner claims the teenager must have "interfered" with the piercing after she left the shop.
There is no minimum legal age for body piercing in the UK, but local authorities in Hull urge parental consent for under-16s.
(LB/BMcC)
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