An unidentified man got hospitalized after swallowing a banana wrapped in a condom, resulting in extreme abdominal pain and bowel obstruction.
The first case of its kind in the world, the 34-year-old man ate the banana in a fit of rage, as he has a history of depression and a few psychological issues.
Condom banana?
The weird situation was discovered after the man reported nausea, vomiting, and stomach pains to a hospital. As reported by Jam Press, the man cannot stand any kind of food intake or drink anything and didn’t have any bowel movements for over 24 hours.
He was subsequently rushed into surgery where doctors were able to remove the “culprit” inside his stomach from his poop chute.
The man was discharged three days after the potassium balloon’s removal, whereupon he recovered to the point to where he could eat and poop without issue.
“Two weeks after the operation, he was into a low-fiber diet without nausea or vomiting,” the report read. “He had a return of normal bowel movements, and his pain was well-controlled.”
This marked the first known case of someone swallowing a banana in a condom, according to the study. Authors noted that small bowel obstructions are rare and usually result “from the ingestion of drug-filled condoms to smuggle illicit drugs.”
Other things people swallow
The most commonly swallowed objects seen in medical settings are coins, which may be unintentionally gulped by children and often pass without a problem, according to pediatricians at Mayo Clinic. But banana wrapped in a condom?
Items such as button batteries and razor blades are far riskier if swallowed, as they can pose a danger of internal injury. The small, round batteries can burn a hole in the esophagus if not eliminated on time, while sharp blades could slice open the digestive tract.
In 2016 in Ireland, a 29-year-old prisoner went to the emergency room after he swallowed a cell phone and the X-ray did show that the phone was in the man’s stomach. Since the phone didn’t pass through the digestive system on its own, doctors tried to remove it using medical tools to pull the device up through the esophagus.
However, they couldn’t align the phone correctly to get it out of the stomach without potentially damaging the esophagus. Ultimately, the doctors needed to make a make a surgical incision into the man’s stomach to get the phone out.
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