A 16 -year-old from Caltanissetta was hospitalized in intensive care after sniffing glue .
The minor arrived Thursday evening in yellow code at the Sant'Elia hospital emergency room with breathing difficulties and bronchostenosis , i.e. the narrowing of a bronchus . The on-call doctor, suspicious of the symptoms, asked the boy several times if he had inhaled anything and in the end the young man admitted what had happened.
Given the patient's condition, the transfer to the intensive care unit of the Umberto I hospital in Enna was arranged. The police are investigating the incident.
(Unioneonline/vf)
