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Doctors have been left mystified after they had to remove an entire plastic bottle from a man's stomach.
The foreign object was found lodged inside the patient's abdomen after it showed up in X-ray images. The 55-year-old, from India, baffled medics who had no idea how the item got there. It is suspected that he swallowed the item whole, although it is not clear how the man apparently didn't realise.
The patient, from the Chatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, had to undergo gruelling surgery to get the item removed. Hospital staff have been monitoring his condition since the operation.
The X-ray showed where the item was stuck (Newslions / SWNS)
The bottle was found in perfect condition (Newslions / SWNS)In a similar case, a deodorant bottle was discovered inside the stomach of a young man in September. The item, which measured seven and a half inches, caused the man abdominal pains. He was forced to go under the knife to remove it at New Delhi's Burdwan Medical College Hospital, reports Daily Mail.
Doctors said even the lid was still intact and added that they had to treat the 27-year-old's oesophagus in a two-hour-long operation. Dr Arindam Ghosh, who helped the patient, told News18 that the object had entered through the man's rectum 20 days earlier.
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He said: "This was a big deal for us, we treated him with uttermost care." Following his surgery, the patient's family praised the medical staff and said: “We are happy with the treatment provided by the hospital. Government hospitals usually delay the process. But they were very prompt.”
Over in the UK, A&E departments said staff are seeing an increase in patients attending with unusual or delicate complaints. In December last year, NHS data revealed that there has been a rise in patients being unable to remove a “foreign object” from an intimate area. In 2022/23 some 73,300 patients had a procedure to remove a foreign object after attending A&E.
Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said at the time: “People attend A&Es with an array of issues, including some potentially embarrassing problems. Staff are trained to approach these problems confidentially and with respect.
“It is vital that if patients are concerned about something and feel they need urgent or emergency care, they should come to A&E. We don’t want patients with potentially important problems to feel deterred."