A 31-year-old woman from Connecticut, US, visited an emergency department with severe diarrhea. The woman lost nine kilograms in one month.
This was written by the news agency Jam Press.
When the doctors examined her, she had 128 beats per minute. Normally this should be between 60 and 100.
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Because the woman’s buttocks were sore, the doctors did not examine her intestines. Instead, they decided to perform a CT scan of the abdomen.
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There it became resoundingly clear the cause of the problems:
The woman had eaten heaps of sunflower seeds, which had accumulated in her buttocks as a huge, hard lump.
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Called a bezoar, this phenomenon is a packed ball of undigested food, Store Medical Lexicon writes. They write that bezoars can be seen everywhere, but they are usually found in the stomach.
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– They occur particularly when the outflow is obstructed, eg after operations or scarring. They write that bezoars are also seen with unusual eating habits, such as eating a lot of hair, adding:
– Bezoars rarely cause symptoms on their own, and often the patient comes for examination because of the cause of the bezoar formation.
placed under anesthesia
The case was discussed in the medical journal Cureus. The doctors who treated the woman concluded that the condition was caused by excessive consumption of sunflower seeds.
The woman was placed under anesthesia and the solid mass consisting of sunflower seeds was removed using a colonoscopy.
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A colonoscopy is an examination of the inside of the large intestine along its entire length and possibly also smaller portions of the adjacent small intestine, according to the Colonoscopy. pocket doctor. The examination is done by inserting a camera attached to a flexible tube into the large intestine through the rectal opening.
The 31-year-old was put on a diet with lots of fiber and was clearly forbidden to eat any more sunflower seeds.
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