Doctors have been left baffled after finding a whole glass inside the stomach of a man.
The patient, who was treated at a private hospital in Madipur in Bihar, India, claimed he had accidentally swallowed the cup while drinking tea.
Upon being admitted to the hospital with constipation and severe abdominal pain, he underwent an ultrasound and X-ray when doctors spotted what was wrong.
They identified a ‘serious disturbance’ in the man’s intestines – and, upon closer inspection, found it was a glass.
Surgeons failed to remove the object from the rectum with an endoscopic procedure, and later had to operate to remove it.
The embarrassed patient, 55, claims he swallowed the glass while drinking tea – although doctors said this does not hold up due to the food pipe being too narrow for the object.
Dr Mahmudul Hasan, who headed the team of doctors operating on the patient, said: ‘How the glass got inside the body of the said patient, it is still a mystery.’
The patient is currently stable.
It is far from the only foreign object that has randomly been found in someone’s stomach in recent years.
Doctors had to operate on a man in Egypt in October last year after he swallowed a phone and waited six months for it to pass ‘naturally.’
This came just a month after a 33-year-old man in Kosovo managed to swallow an imitation Nokia 3310.
According to the British Society of Gastroenterology, around 10–20% of cases involving people swallowing an object require endoscopic removal and up to 1% could require surgical extraction.
They said that coins, buttons, plastic items, batteries, and bones were among the most common items accidentally swallowed.
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