There are times when reality is stranger than fiction, and this is one of them. The protagonist of the story is a 33-year-old young man who was urgently admitted to a hospital in Pirstina, the capital of Kosovo, suffering from stomach pains. Doctors were stunned when they discovered that he had a Nokia phone in his stomach after swallowing it , although so far no one has been able to find out why he did so.
The young man had to be operated on urgently, and the medical team, led by Skender Teljaku, managed to extract the Nokia phone from his stomach without opening it . They did it using endoscopes and the procedure lasted about two hours. You are now in good health.
The doctors extracted the device in three parts and, as Skender Teljaku explained to the local newspaper ‘Ekspress’, the most dangerous part was the battery as there was a risk of explosion . In addition, it could release chemicals in the digestive system of the young man, whose life was in danger.
About 80% of uneatable foreign objects that are ingested, usually by accident, pass through the body without causing symptoms or complications. Small, rounded items are the most “harmless .”
However, the ingestion of larger objects, such as a mobile phone, or those that are toxic or sharp, do require urgent medical intervention. These types of items can cause symptoms such as: abdominal cramps, loss of appetite, fever, vomiting, presence of blood in the stool and abdominal distention .
Foreign objects in the human body
Throughout history, many doctors have documented strange objects found in the bodies of their patients .
For example, the Russian Artyom Sidorkin went to the hospital with severe chest pains and coughing up blood. When they did an X-ray, they discovered something like a tumor in his lung. However, once they did the biopsy they realized that it was not a tumor, but a branch of fir .
Another of the most surprising cases took place in 2007, when Jesse Courtnay went to the doctor for the pain he felt and the buzzing he heard. Doctors found several spiders in his ear .
Magret Wegner lived no more and no less than 55 years with a pencil embedded in her head . It fell off when she was a child and got through her skin, disappearing into her head.
