India : Doctors in India removed more than 60 steel spoon handles from the stomach of a man who they believe had become addicted to swallowing cutlery.
The patient, identified only by his first name, Vijay, was rushed to a hospital at the weekend after complaining of excruciating stomach pain and underwent emergency surgery to remove the metal objects.
The 32-year-old man was unable to eat or drink and complained of feeling weak at the time of admission, prompting doctors to take X-rays and CT scans to determine the cause of the pain, a doctor at Evan hospital in northern Muzaffarnagar city said on Wednesday.
The doctor said initially they suspected it to be a tumour, but on a closer examination of the scans, they found a cluster of foreign objects in his stomach.
“There were 63 of them. Never in my career of nearly 35 years have I seen such a case … it is one of the rare medical cases.”
Doctor Khurana said the man broke the head off the spoons and swallowed only the handles.
