As i've mentioned, and most of you know, I am a nursing student.This is what occupies most of my brain space. The rest is taken up by video games, kittens, sparkly unicorns, and a few other various things.So, in light of a new semester and thus my renewed inability to think about anything non-medical, here's a list of 10 weird, amazing things eaten by someone.
1.False Teeth-A woman swallowed her lover’s false teeth while kissing. The woman says that they were experimenting with a “special type of passionate kiss.” She made it to the hospital and fortunately did not require surgery. The woman eventually passed the teeth after two days in the hospital.
2. About $650-A man in France swallowed about 350 coins, along with other assorted metal objects, including needles. When he arrived at the hospital, doctors discovered that the mass in his stomach weighed 12 pounds, enough to force his stomach down between his hips. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but the man died from complications 12 days later. This was not the first time the man had been in the hospital for removal of coins from his stomach. Apparently, he liked to steal coins and eat them.
3. Cockroach and Fork- This one really begs a few questions. A woman in Israel had a cockroach jump into her mouth as she was cleaning her home. In an effort to remove the pest, she used a fork, which she accidentally swallowed along with the cockroach. The fork became lodged sideways in her stomach, and had to be removed with laproscopic surgery. The surgery was successful, but we can probably assume that she digested the cockroach.
4. A Bullet-A woman in California swears that she quite literally “bit the bullet” while eating a hot dog. She claims that she swallowed one, and then bit a second one. An X-ray revealed that she had a bullet in her stomach, although she was optimistic, noting that eating is “the most secure way for a bullet to enter your body.”
5. 20 Cobblestones-In a fight with her boyfriend, a woman from China swallowed more than 20 cobblestones. She assumed that the stones would come out after a few days, but she discovered they would not budge, and worse, they were knocking around in her stomach. She was advised to seek surgery.
6.An Antenna- A 28 year old man with a personality disorder swallowed an aerial antenna and pens which had to be removed with a laparotomy after endoscopy was unsuccessful. All told, the surgery resulted in the retrieval of two pens, six sections of a radio antenna, a pen refill, and a pencil. Just three weeks earlier, the man had swallowed other objects including stationery. Doctors believe that the man intended to cause himself harm.
7. A Toothbrush-A 20 year old woman was using her toothbrush to clean the back area of her tongue when she triggered her gag reflex. This gagging caused her to swallow the toothbrush. Doctors removed the toothbrush through her esophagus using alligator forceps. Interesting tidbit, at the time of her ingestion, she was one of only 40 people known to have ingested a toothbrush, most of whom were diagnosed with bulimia or anorexia nervosa.
8. A Smoky Quartz-A young girl swallowed a smokey quartz, which came with a "Treasure of the Earth" magazine. Her mother told her to put it somewhere safe, and apparently, she did. Everything came out just fine.
9. Tapeworms-You would think that most people would be smart enough to realize that swallowing a parasitic worm is both dangerous and disgusting, but you’d be wrong. Women and men have knowingly ingested tapeworms and allowed them to live in their bodies. Why? Weight loss, of course. The tapeworm diet requires that you eat infected beef carcass, and then after a specific amount of time, take prescribed medicine to kill the parasite. EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
10. Hair-A 10-pound hairball was found in the belly of an 18 year old woman in New England. She apparently had a habit of eating her own hair. The mass had to be removed by surgery.
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