The doctors were shocked. A 40-year-old man was admitted to Moga Medicity Hospital in northern India after complaining of severe stomach pain and nausea. Through a medical X-ray examination, the doctor found that there were around 150 objects in the patient’s stomach, including bolts, nuts, and even a bracelet.
“We were shocked when the X-ray report came in,” said Dr. Ajmer Kalra, hospital director, told National news.
Instead of one or two, the surgeons then decided to operate on the forty-year-old man during a three-hour surgical operation in which they removed bolts, medals, pins, buttons, packaging, nails, zippers, bracelets and many other items. . “There was a lump of foreign matter that we call radiopaque material. After the operation, we found 150 items including bracelets, zippers, nails, nuts and bolts. He suffered for almost a week,” said the hospital director.
May be suffering from Pica disease
Unfortunately, the patient, who had suffered from gastric problems for two years, died of sepsis a few hours after surgery, after which his condition was considered serious and unstable. “He was put on a ventilator, but we couldn’t save him. He suffered from stomach bloating which led to perforation and eventually developed sepsis before dying,” said Dr Ajmer Kalra.
According to doctors, the forty-year-old man may be suffering from Pica, a mental disorder that requires him to regularly consume things other than food. Although family members said he often complained of stomach aches, they said they never knew he had swallowed any of the items, theIndian Express.
Following this terrible story, Dr Kalra said the hospital had been approached by researchers who wanted to include this case study in a journal.
