By Montserrat Arqué
02 Oct 2023, 15:39 PM EDT
A group of doctors from a hospital in the city of Punjab, in India, received a tremendous surprise after they treated a man who came to the emergency room due to severe abdominal pain, without ever imagining what was causing it. .
It was on September 26 when a 35-year-old man named Kuldeep Singh went to the Moga Medicity hospital because he could no longer stand the discomfort in his stomach. To determine what was causing the problem, the doctors who treated him decided to take an x-ray, and were stunned to discover that he had a variety of strange objects inside this organ.
As reported by The Mirror, Singh had around 60 items in his stomach, including headphones, earphones, screws and buttons. The doctors indicated that this could be because the patient probably suffers from pica disorder, which makes people have the desire to eat or swallow things that are not food.
The man admitted that he had been eating all kinds of little things he found at home for more than 2 years.
“When performing an x-ray, we found medallions, chains, nuts, bolts, earpieces and many other objects inside the stomach. So we decided to operate on him,” commented the hospital director, Ajmer Singh Kalra, to the aforementioned media.
The man had also eaten magnets, shirt buttons and zippers, among other items. For this reason, he had to undergo urgent surgery. The surgery lasted about 3 hours and was successful, although his health was delicate.
“As he had eaten sharp objects, he had serious injuries to his stomach. Although the surgery was carried out successfully, he is still connected to a ventilator and is in critical condition,” explained surgeon Anup Handa and gastroenterologist Dr. Vishavnoor Kalra, in charge of the operation.
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