A teenage boy died of blood poisoning after getting his lip pierced, an inquest was told yesterday.

Daniel Hindle, 17, an A-level student from Richmond, Sheffield, had a ring put through his lip and his girlfriend had her eyebrow pierced.

His mother, Christine Anderson, broke down in the witness box as she told the inquest in Sheffield that the first she knew about the piercing was when her son walked through the door.

"My first reaction was shock. I suppose it's a normal motherly reaction."

Mrs Anderson said she called a doctor when he developed a fever nearly two weeks later.

The locum took two minutes to examine Daniel, before prescribing medicine for an upset stomach.

Two days later Daniel started hallucinating and was rushed to hospital. Mrs Anderson said her son had been born with a weak heart but was living a normal life.

She said she had talked to a doctor at the Northern General Hospital and added: "I thought it was something to do with his heart, but he told me Daniel had septicaemia.

"It was then that I told him about the lip piercing. He seemed to agree that that would be the cause."

Naomi Storey, 21, Daniel's girlfriend, told the jury that her piercing, at Body Poppers, had also become infected.

The piercer, Emma Thompson, denied breaking hygiene rules. The inquest continues.

　　中文：

　　在身体各部位穿刺已经成为现代年轻人追求另类时尚风格的表现，但这种穿刺行为对身体的危害非常大。日前，英国就有一名年轻人因为在嘴唇穿洞，引发血液中毒而导致死亡。

　　据《每日电讯报》11月9日报道，这名男孩名叫丹尼尔-欣德尔，现年17岁，是英国谢菲尔德市一所学校的优等生。为了追求时尚，欣德尔在嘴唇上穿洞，并戴上了唇环，而他的女友则在眉毛上穿洞。

　　欣德尔的妈妈克里斯廷-安德森在法庭证人席上对陪审团表示，她得知自己的孩子在嘴唇上穿洞是在欣德尔回家的时候。说到这时，这位痛苦的妈妈已经接近崩溃，她说："我的第一个反应是很震惊。我想这是一位母亲正常的反应。"

　　安德森说，大约两个星期后，当欣德尔出现发烧症状时，她找来了医生。医生经过了2分钟的检查后，给欣德尔开出了治疗肚子痛的药物。两天之后，欣德尔开始出现了幻觉反应，同时被送往医院进行治疗。安德森说，欣德尔出生时心脏不太好，但是他的生活一直很正常，没出现过什么问题。据安德森说她曾和当地医院的一名医生谈过自己儿子的病情，她说："我认为可能是欣德尔的心脏出了些问题，但是医生却说他得了败血病。后来，我告诉他欣德尔穿唇环的事，而他也认同这可能就是导致欣德尔生病的原因。"

　　欣德尔21岁的女友内奥米-斯托莉表示，她身上的刺环也出现了感染的情况。而这起案件中的主要人物，为欣德尔和斯托莉实施穿刺的艾玛-汤普森则否认自己违反了相关的医疗卫生条例。目前，此案仍在审理中。（王高山）