Posted on 10/02/2021 3:29:02 PM PDT by Libloather
A Lithuanian man has had more than a kilogram of nails, screws, nuts and knives removed from his stomach by doctors, local media report.
He had been swallowing metal objects for a month after quitting alcohol, doctors said.
Some of the objects retrieved during a surgery in Klaipeda University Hospital were 10cm (4in) long, according to Lithuania's LRT public broadcaster.
Surgeon Sarunas Dailidenas called it a "unique case".
In its article (in Lithuanian), LRT published a KUH photo showing a surgical tray full of metal objects after the emergency three-hour operation.
The man was brought by ambulance with severe abdominal pain to the hospital on the Baltic Sea coast
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Good thing they didn’t send him for an MRI!
Galvanized nails are a good source of zinc.
Lucky he wasn’t hammered.
I looked quick but I missed your post.
You be the winner!
That’s screwy.
Yep I anticipate that pretty soon these folks wont be treated.
Nailed It!
Weird. I mean the part about giving up alcohol. Why would he do that?
Called a “pica”...compulsive eating disorder..those afflicted can eat all sorts of stuff...dirt, clay, paint chips, pages from printed books...
I remember that book. I read most of Crews’s novels back in the 80s. He was a strange one.
I used to eat sidewalk chalk when I was a kid, but this is a bridge too far. Maybe he needs a multi-vitamin with minerals in it.
OK, fair enough. I never hear “pica” before but I am aware of eating disorders and have heard about instances of people eating all kinds of things that most of us would never dream of such as paint chips etc.
Still, the article makes a point of saying he recently tried to sober up. Which I guess if it was a problem for him is a good thing. My question is, was this pica a result of his quitting alcohol? Or was it something pre-existing?
I know if drink too much, a lot of things I consume will pass through. :-) Had he been eating metal objects all his life or is it the result of a mental disorder induced by alcohol or alcohol withdrawal?
imagine what his bowel movements sounded like...
Couldn’t have a screwdriver, so he went for the next best thing…
no antabuse over there?
“Totally creepy. Psych stuff.”
Aristotle (350 BC) wrote about that. In his chapter on “depraved actions,” he mentions plucking eyelashes, eating charcoal, and homosexuality.
There was an article once about a man who pushed needles into his body everywhere....it was a fetish of some sort.
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