The summer will be here before we know it. Many of us will be celebrating the summer by having cookouts. While cookouts are a lot of fun, there is a danger that everyone needs to know about.

Anthony Fiore knows all about this danger. Like most people, the Fiore family looked forward to grilling out. Anthony’s mother, Nadia, used a steel bristle brush to clean off the grill.

Anthony felt something tingly in his throat after he started eating. Nadia knew that something was wrong, so she decided to rush her son to the hospital. Anthony was in pain, which continued to get worse.

The doctors discovered that Anthony had a piece of metal inside of his throat. If the metal would have moved, then it could have punctured his other organs.Anthony had surgery in order to remove the metal.

However, that was not the end of his problems. He developed an infection a few days after the surgery. He received antibiotics, the infection cleared, and he was able to go home. Anthony’s story is actually quite common.

Dr. Aziz Benbrahim, who works at MidState Medical Center, has stated that he sees cases like this all of the time. Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky as Anthony.

Plenty of barbecue tools look like they can hurt you pretty badly, but your wire cleaning brush? According to Geek.com, those wire bristles can do some seriously bad stuff to your body. They can become lodged in your tongue or throat, for example, and surgeons say that they have yet to figure out a reliable method of finding and removing them. Dr. Ian Dempsey of Halifax, Canada, explained that it's like the old saying "trying to find a needle in a haystack," adding " but the haystack is your tongue." Bristles that work their way down farther can be downright deadly. One patient wound up with a minute bristle lodged in his small intestine. Doctors finally managed to find it as it started working its way through the intestinal wall ? if they hadn't, it could have eventually worked its way into another organ and killed him.