Amazed medics have removed an astonishing hoard of metal objects from a man’s stomach after he collapsed in agony at a hospital in India.
The 40-year-old patient, who has not been named, told emergency staff in Moga, Punjab State, that he’d been suffering from severe pain for months.
Surgeons then took an X-ray that revealed the cause of the problem, and they then needed three hours to remove a baffling collection of random objects which he had apparently been swallowing for years.
An operating theatre photograph of the haul shows zips, earbuds, lockets, zips, screws, magnets, safety pins, nails, rakhi wristbands and twisted pieces of metal.
Dr Ajmer Kalra, director of Moga Medicity Hospital, said the patient had been crippled with stomach pain for two years but had never admitted his bizarre taste in eating material.
He was admitted on 25th September with fever and vomiting, and medics say he is expected to recover fully.
According to his family, the man suffers from a compulsion to swallow metal.
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