HK Reports Sixth Children with Kidney Stones after Drinking Tainted Milk

Source: Xinhua

Hong Kong health authorities said Friday that a 10-year-old boy had suffered from kidney stones after drinking melamine tainted milk products.

The new case brings to six the total number of children with milk-related kidney stones in Hong Kong.

The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of Hong Kong said in a statement that the boy living in Yau Ma Tei had consumed three to four packs (250 milliliter/pack) of "Yili" brand high calcium low fat milk beverage daily for the past six years.

As there were changes in his urinary frequency, his parents took him to the Kwong Wah Hospital for medical checkup on Oct. 6. Two renal stones were found in his right kidney.

The center said that the boy is now under treatment and no hospitalization is required.

The product concerned was earlier found by the Center for Food Safety of Hong Kong to have been adulterated with melamine, a chemical that could cause kidney stones leading to renal failure.

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