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Doctors have discovered nine nails inside a patient’s abdomen – and she had to poop them out.
The 20-year-old woman, from New Delhi, India, swallowed the nails with a cup of toilet cleaner in a failed suicide attempt.
The next day she went to A&E with severe stomach pain.
X-rays revealed multiple nails in her stomach and upper abdomen.
Instead of removing the nails in surgery doctors prescribed her psyllium husk, a plant product that acts as a laxative, with water or milk and bananas, according to the BMJ case report.
After 11 days she had pooped out all of the nails without any complications and was discharged from hospital.
But three weeks later she went back to hospital complaining of vomiting and a lack of appetite.
Doctors used an endoscopy – a small rubber tube with a camera that’s inserted down the throat – to see what was going on.
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