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Resident of the Indian city of Gurdaspur over the past two months swallowed several dozen folding knives. Forty-two-year-old man admitted to doctors that he did it consciously, because he really liked the taste of metal. To remove foreign objects from the patient’s stomach, doctors It took a complicated surgical operation.
A man talks about his gastronomic addictions: “Once I licked a knife, and the sour taste of metal pleased me. Then I swallowed it whole, and then I began to swallow other knives in home. We can say that I had an unhealthy mood for them attachment, like an alcoholic to alcohol. I knew it was bad will affect my health, but could not help myself and pulled with a trip to the hospital until the last, until I was completely badly”.
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The patient went to the hospital with an otter stomach pain. When the doctors did an x-ray, then they saw an Indian in the digestive organ a huge dark spot that could not be identified. Only then the man admitted that he swallowed knives for two whole months. By according to the surgeon who performed the operation, it turned out to be the most creepy and a surrealistic case in his many years of practice.
During an operation that took more than five hours, doctors about forty iron folding knives were removed from the patient’s stomach, many of which were laid out, and some even started encrust.
After recovery, the Indian should head straight to psychiatrist because of his addiction to swallowing inedible subjects is undoubtedly a serious mental illness. The patient does not deny this himself.
Many doctors reacted to the incident with humor and recommended a man to eat more spinach to satisfy the body’s need for iron. And someone even jokingly recommended the unfortunate to insert iron teeth …
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