A Taiwanese mother mistook a small bottle of instant glue for ear drops and poured the glue into her son's inflamed ear.
The 14-year-old boy screamed out in pain and later underwent a 20-minute operation to have the congealed glue removed from his ear, the teen-ager's physician said.
The doctor, Liu Wen-chuan, said the mother kept the bottles of ear drops and glue in the refrigerator and picked the wrong one in haste.
(China Daily July 04, 2002)
