<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Melamine-linked checks: NUH service for kids
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Xinyang having his blood pressure checked at NUH which has examined six children since it began the service on Tuesday. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IN AN effort to help eight-year-old Chen Xinyang gain weight, his parents began feeding the skinny Primary 2 pupil two glasses of China-made Yili milk a day.
That was in January, well before news surfaced that another Yili product was tainted with the potentially harmful chemical melamine.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>'We don't dare to drink milk from China any more.'
Madam Yang Xin, whose family has since switched to a brand made from Thai milk
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Yesterday, Xinyang's worried parents took him to the National University Hospital (NUH) children's clinic. The unit has started a special service for children who may have been affected by melamine contamination.
As a doctor pressed gently on Xinyang's abdomen to check for kidney stones, a by-product of melamine ingestion, his parents, Mr Chen Jin and Madam Yang Xin, looked on anxiously.
But after the check-up, a urine test and an ultrasound scan, Xinyang was declared to be healthy.
Six children have been examined since the service began on Tuesday, including Xinyang. None was found to have melamine-related kidney problems.
Xinyang's family, originally from Tianjin, were visiting relatives in China last December when they began drinking Yili milk.
When they came back, they continued to buy it because Xinyang liked its 'richer flavour', said Mr Chen, a 39-year-old engineer who is now a Singapore citizen.
=> Wife leh? Son leh? Need to serve NS?
They have since switched to a brand made from Thai milk.
'We don't dare to drink milk from China any more,' said Madam Yang, 40, an electronics laboratory executive.
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health told hospitals and family doctors to be on the lookout for possible cases of melamine contamination in children. Suspected cases should be referred to specialists for treatment, the ministry said.
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Xinyang having his blood pressure checked at NUH which has examined six children since it began the service on Tuesday. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IN AN effort to help eight-year-old Chen Xinyang gain weight, his parents began feeding the skinny Primary 2 pupil two glasses of China-made Yili milk a day.
That was in January, well before news surfaced that another Yili product was tainted with the potentially harmful chemical melamine.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>'We don't dare to drink milk from China any more.'
Madam Yang Xin, whose family has since switched to a brand made from Thai milk
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Yesterday, Xinyang's worried parents took him to the National University Hospital (NUH) children's clinic. The unit has started a special service for children who may have been affected by melamine contamination.
As a doctor pressed gently on Xinyang's abdomen to check for kidney stones, a by-product of melamine ingestion, his parents, Mr Chen Jin and Madam Yang Xin, looked on anxiously.
But after the check-up, a urine test and an ultrasound scan, Xinyang was declared to be healthy.
Six children have been examined since the service began on Tuesday, including Xinyang. None was found to have melamine-related kidney problems.
Xinyang's family, originally from Tianjin, were visiting relatives in China last December when they began drinking Yili milk.
When they came back, they continued to buy it because Xinyang liked its 'richer flavour', said Mr Chen, a 39-year-old engineer who is now a Singapore citizen.
=> Wife leh? Son leh? Need to serve NS?
They have since switched to a brand made from Thai milk.
'We don't dare to drink milk from China any more,' said Madam Yang, 40, an electronics laboratory executive.
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health told hospitals and family doctors to be on the lookout for possible cases of melamine contamination in children. Suspected cases should be referred to specialists for treatment, the ministry said.
