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Doctors,
nurses and other medical professionals often find surprising things
inside human bodies. Whether the person has intentionally inserted
something inside themselves or they have had the misfortune to
accidentally lodge an item within their bodies without knowing, having a
foreign object within your body can be a very dangerous situation. The
item can cause infections, alter the chemical balance or cause other
health problems. This means that doctors will often have to rush to get
the object out as soon as possible, often with the help of surgery.
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200 Stones
Surgeons at Guanji Hospital, in Hezhou, China, recently spent six hours
removing over 200 stones from a woman's gallbladder and liver, some of
them the size of small eggs.
The patient, a 45-year-old known only as Ms. Chen, had apparently been
experiencing abdominal pain for over a decade. When she first went to a
hospital, an examination revealed several stones in her gallbladder and
liver as the cause. Doctors advised her to undergo surgery and have them
removed, but she was too scared to go under the knife. She only recently
went to Guanji Hospital, when the pain became “unbearable.”
Dr. Quan Xuwei, one of the surgeons who operated, said that such a large
number of stones was unusual, adding that it was probably caused by the
woman's eating habits. |
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27 Contact Lenses
A 67-year-old woman has had 27 contact lenses removed from one eye. The
discovery was made after the woman went to Solihull hospital in the West
Midlands for routine cataract surgery.
In a report for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), experts from the
hospital reported “a bluish foreign body” emerged during the procedure
“as a hard mass of 17 contact lenses bound together by mucus." Ten more
were found under further examination.
The experts wrote: “The patient had worn monthly disposable lenses for
35 years. She had poor vision in the right eye, and deep-set eyes, which
might have contributed to the unusually large number of retained foreign
bodies.”
Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee in ophthalmology, told Optometry
Today: “None of us have ever seen this before. It was such a large mass.
All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together. She was quite shocked.
She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry
eye." |
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40 Knives
In 2016, surgeons removed 40 metal knives from a patient who spent two
months swallowing them, according to the doctor who led the operation.
The unnamed 42-year-old man, who had an "uncontrollable urge" to eat the
knives, went to a hospital in Gurdaspur in Northern India after
complaining of stomach pain and weakness. Only after an ultrasound
revealed a large mass in his stomach, did the man tell doctors he had
swallowed knives.
Malhotra said they found folded knives, unfolded knives, and rusted and
broken knives in the man's stomach. "I'm sorry I let my family down,"
the father of two said. “I'll be forever thankful to doctors and
hospital staff for saving my life.” |
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7cm Mushrooms
A woman had to have mushrooms removed from her stomach by surgeons after
they began to grow inside her. Doctors shared gruesome footage of the
fungi lodged in the 50-year-old woman's gut, some of which had grown to
up to 7cm long.
The mushrooms became stuck in the woman's stomach as she often
reportedly ate cooked dry mushrooms directly without soaking them and
didn't chew them properly. She went to the hospital after suffering from
stomach ache, and doctors found that the mushrooms had expanded in her
stomach and got stuck. |
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Live Cockroach
Doctors in Chennai, India successfully removed a cockroach from a
woman's skull and—guess what, it was alive!
Selvi, a domestic worker living in Injambakkam, was fast asleep when she
felt an insect crawling inside her nostril. She tried to brush it aside,
but it had already gone in. She then went to the clinic where the
doctors told her to visit Stanley Medical College Hospital. After the
nasal endoscopy, the doctors found the cockroach sitting on the skull
between her eyes. The doctors are glad that Selvi turned up at the right
time because if the cockroach died, it might have harmed her brain.
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