Doctors make shocking discovery after Indian woman complains of stomach pain

Ahmedabad - "The stomach of the woman had become rock hard."

Doctors in Ahmedabad, India, were startled to find dozens of metal objects, including bracelets, rings and hair pins lodged in a woman's stomach. The woman had complained of severe abdominal pain and tests revealed she had been consuming metal objects over a long period of time.
"The stomach of the woman had become rock hard. When we conducted the X-ray, it showed a lump in her stomach," Mirror.uk quoted Dr Nitin Parmar, senior surgeon at the Ahmedabad Civil hospital, as saying.
The woman, known only as Sangita, was found wandering on streets and is said to be suffering from 'acuphagia', a rare disorder of consuming sharp metallic and indigestible objects. One of the items she had consumed was a 'mangalsutra', a traditional necklace worn by married Hindu women in India.

Doctors revealed the safety pins consumed by the woman had partially perforated her lungs while another pointed pin had punctured her stomach walls which required an emergency surgery to extract the objects.
Although all the objects were removed from her stomach through a surgery, the woman will be kept in observation to ensure that she does not consume anymore metal objects.

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