‘I wanted to be a Marvel superhero! Young man injects himself with mercury News from Mexico

UNITED STATES.- A 15-year-old man from the United States he put his life at risk, since mercury was injected into his arm believing he would become a superhero worthy of Marvel.

This was made known through a medical report published by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information that detailed a little more about the case, which caught the attention of netizens by the extreme and naive measure. of the adolescent.

Apparently, the minor had the idea of ​​becoming Pietro Maximoff, The character in the X-Men saga, who is also known within the franchise as Quicksilver and has the superhuman ability to move at high speeds.

With that desire in mind, the young man removed mercury from a homemade thermometer and used a syringe to inject into his arm subcutaneously, This with the hope of gradually becoming a human with supernatural abilities.

However, the reaction was not as expected, as his skin reacted instantly to being in contact with the toxic substance and it caused him an ulcer that did not heal, Although he may have risked his life.

A surgical procedure was performed to treat the ulcer and reduce mercury levels in the blood and urine. However, the patient did not develop clinical signs of chronic intoxication, demonstrating that subcutaneous injection of mercury has a low risk of systemic toxicity, ”the report reads.

According to some medical sources, the consequences of these actions could have been fatal if it had not been treated in time, as these injections are usually a method of suicide in patients with depression.

The case surprised the doctors who treated the young man because this would not be the first time he tries to do something similar with the intention of becoming a superhero, because some time ago he was bitten by a spider to be Spiderman.

Faced with the facts, the patient’s doctors they had to prepare a report on their psychological state to find out if the child was suffering from any mental illness that it would cause him the need to perform such recklessness.

The study was favorable and without any strange anomalies, even showed that the adolescent has a normal IQ, so it is questioned how it was that mercury was injected.