A man in India has received emergency treatment
after swallowing 40 metal knives.
He was admitted to The Corporate Hospital in
Gurdaspur, India, a few days ago with complaints
of abdomen pain and weakness.
The father of two underwent a successful five-
hour operation to remove the knives from his
stomach in the northern city of Amritsar, after
complaining to doctors of severe abdomen pain.
“I don’t know why I did it but there was some
spiritual power behind it,” the 42-year-old said
from Amritsar in Punjab state, declining to be
named.
“It started in June when I swallowed the first
knife and I enjoyed the feeling. It soon became a
habit.”
A team of surgeons were astonished when they
discovered he had swallowed not one, not two,
but 40 knives over the last two months because
he liked the way they tasted.
One of the five surgeons on hand, Dr Jitinder
Malhotra, branded it as the most dreadful surgery
he had seen in the last 20 years of practicing.He said: ‘When we began diagnosis, we found the
cause of the pain puzzling. We did an ultrasound,
which revealed some solid mass in his stomach,
shaped like cancer.‘The patient then told us he had an
uncontrollable urge to eat knives. What is
astonishing is that he had been eating knives
since the past two months.
‘This was very unnerving, I have not witnessed
something like this in my career as a doctor.’
After a gruesome five hours of surgery with lots
of bleeding, Jarnail was somehow successfully
treated and will be discharged from hospital in
the upcoming days.
A man in India has received emergency treatment
after swallowing 40 metal knives.
He was admitted to The Corporate Hospital in
Gurdaspur, India, a few days ago with complaints
of abdomen pain and weakness.
The father of two underwent a successful five-
hour operation to remove the knives from his
stomach in the northern city of Amritsar, after
complaining to doctors of severe abdomen pain.
“I don’t know why I did it but there was some
spiritual power behind it,” the 42-year-old said
from Amritsar in Punjab state, declining to be
named.
“It started in June when I swallowed the first
knife and I enjoyed the feeling. It soon became a
habit.”
A team of surgeons were astonished when they
discovered he had swallowed not one, not two,
but 40 knives over the last two months because
he liked the way they tasted.
One of the five surgeons on hand, Dr Jitinder
Malhotra, branded it as the most dreadful surgery
he had seen in the last 20 years of practicing.He said: ‘When we began diagnosis, we found the
cause of the pain puzzling. We did an ultrasound,
which revealed some solid mass in his stomach,
shaped like cancer.‘The patient then told us he had an
uncontrollable urge to eat knives. What is
astonishing is that he had been eating knives
since the past two months.
‘This was very unnerving, I have not witnessed
something like this in my career as a doctor.’
After a gruesome five hours of surgery with lots
of bleeding, Jarnail was somehow successfully
treated and will be discharged from hospital in
the upcoming days.
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