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Obsessed woman swallows 78 forks, spoons
Updated On: 31 October, 2009 07:47 AM IST | | Agencies
52-year-old ignored food and ate cutlery instead, say doctors
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52-year-old ignored food and ate cutlery instead, say doctors
A woman obsessed with swallowing spoons and forks was forced to have an operation after she ate an entire canteen of cutlery.
Surgeons removed 78 different items of cutlery from Margaret Daalman's stomach after she came to hospital complaining of stomach pains.
An astonishing X-ray taken before the operation showed dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside the 52-year-old patient.
"She seems to have been suffering from some sort of obsession and every time she sat down for a meal she would ignore the food and eat the cutlery," said one medic.
A woman obsessed with swallowing spoons and forks was forced to have an operation after she ate an entire canteen of cutlery.
Surgeons removed 78 different items of cutlery from Margaret Daalman's stomach after she came to hospital complaining of stomach pains.
An astonishing X-ray taken before the operation showed dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside the 52-year-old patient.
"She seems to have been suffering from some sort of obsession and every time she sat down for a meal she would ignore the food and eat the cutlery," said one medic.
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