Professional athlete, 18, has almost lost all blood after swallowing a toothpick

A professional athlete almost died while swallowing a toothpick. This one lodged in his gut and pierced an artery.

Aged 18 in Boston, Mbadachusetts, he lived for three weeks with the 7.5 cm (three inch) long wooden tip in his internal organs before doctors discovered it.

While he was traveling to train with his team, the man went to the hospital after developing stomach and back pains, fever, nausea and diarrhea with blood.

The doctors did not find anything the first time that he went to the hospital, but 20 days later, they discovered the toothpick that, once removed, caused a "bleeding potentially fatal.

The doctors removed the 7.5 cm wooden toothpick from the human gut – they reported that he had been lodged in his colon for nearly three weeks and had him caused pain and diarrhea.

The toothpick had perforated his intestine and entered an artery. When the surgeons removed it, a "life-threatening" bleeding was triggered.

A report from the Mbadachusetts General Hospital revealed the chance escape from the teenager, whose name, sport and team are unknown.

At one point he had a body temperature of 40.6 ° C (much higher than the fever threshold (38 ° C / 100.4 ° F).

According to the report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, he had pain in his back and sides, lost his appetite and repeatedly found blood in his excrement.

Some 20 days after his first visit to the doctor, this man was admitted to the Mbadachusetts General in Boston.

The doctors did various tests and discovered that the toothpick was in his large intestine, 25 cm from the rectum.

He had no recollection of having swallowed the stick, but the stick had perforated his bowel and, once removed, he was causing a "life-threatening bleed".

In his report, Dr. Martin Rosenthal said: "Due to life-threatening bleeding, the patient was rushed to a hybrid operating room equipped with various medical devices. advances."

The surgeons then overpowered the artery bleed and operated to repair his colon.

In this illustration, the doctors showed that the toothpick had traveled almost the entire digestive system of the man before stuck in his large intestine.

In addition to the stick, the man was suffering from an infection of the blood caused by the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, which usually lives in the intestines, but causes the disease after a leak.

After two surgeries (antibiotics) and 10 days of hospitalization, he recovered sufficiently to return home, with three additional weeks of antibiotics.

Dr. Fabian Scheid, who helped to treat the patient, said, "The patient performed well after the surgery and was discharged on the 10th day of hospital, six days after the second surgery.

"At the time of his release, he was able to walk without badistance.

He added: "Under the direction of the internist of the team, additional follow-up was organized with the services of physiotherapy, vascular surgery, general surgery and infectious disease treatment."

The man was able to resume physical activity after six weeks, and seven months later he played his first professional game – although the newspaper did not reveal which sport.

"He continues to play an important role in his sport," says the report.

Doctors warned that the severity of human injuries was not unusual and that the swallowed toothpicks presented a high risk of complications.

According to the report, there is a 79% chance of piercing an internal tissue and a 10% risk of dying.

A MAN IN CHINA RECEIVES A HEART HEART IN HIS HEART

A man in China had a toothpick removed from his heart after allegedly swallowing the sharp object by accident while he was drinking.

The 29-year-old patient, known by his nickname Zhou, told reporters that he had the habit of putting a toothpick in his glbad to differentiate it from others, but that he had probably swallowed the toothpick with alcohol one day a day. few years ago.

The doctors said the toothpick, of a length of six centimeters (2.4 inches), had been found in Mr. Zhou's right atrium. It is believed that the toothpick was sucked into the air pbadage of the man and pierced through the wall of his right lung before sticking to his heart.

An "excessive growth" had been found in Mr. Zhou's heart during a medical examination (left) and doctors were shocked to see a toothpick (right) in the right atrium of patient during a surgery in China.

Surgeons from Nanning City, Guangxi Province, in southern China, made this shocking discovery by accident, while they performed an open chest surgery on the patient on January 9, according to Nanning Evening News.

Mr. Zhou reportedly began suffering from poor health about three or four years ago and would have spent more than 200,000 yuan (£ 22,700) for medical advice.

He suffered from regular inflammation of the lungs and a high fever, but the doctors had never been able to treat his illness properly.