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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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October 17, 2008
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Surveillance

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Renal stones found in two children

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Centre for Health Protection

The Centre for Health Protection today confirmed two cases of renal problems involving an eight-year-old girl and a toddler who had consumed melamine tainted milk products.

 

There have been 10 such cases.

 

The eight-year-old girl living in Tuen Mun has been drinking contaminated milk products regularly bought from the Mainland in the past three years. A 4.5mm renal stone was found in her right kidney.

 

The 22-month-old boy living in Tseung Kwan O passed some bloody urine in August 2008. On October 9, his mother found a blood-stained object about the size of a grain of rice in his diaper, likely to be a renal stone.

 

A follow-up ultrasound exam did not find any stone in his kidney. He is in stable condition.

 

The centre's hotline, 2125 1133, operates from 9am to 5pm from Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 1pm on Saturday. It caters for individuals who have consumed milk products believed to have been contaminated with melamine or those who are experiencing kidney problems.