A 29-year-old Chinese man named Zhou underwent successful surgery to remove a toothpick stuck in his … heart.
As it turned out, a man who often abused alcohol had the habit of keeping a toothpick in a glass, and once swallowed it with alcohol.
From the throat, a sharp piece of wood passed towards the lung, pierced its wall and went straight to the heart, where it stuck and stuck in the outer shell.
The anomaly was discovered only when the man went to the hospital with complaints of pain in the heart and he was diagnosed with a deformed part of the organ. After that, the man was operated on and during the operation the surgeons stumbled upon the cause of the problem - a thin 6-centimeter wooden toothpick.
According to doctors, the man was incredibly lucky that the toothpick did not pierce his heart.
The operation took place on January 9, 2019, in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China, according to the Nanning Evening News. Even more shocking, it turned out that Joe began to feel pain in his heart about 4 years ago. That is, the toothpick has been sticking in his heart for all these 4 years.
According to Zhou, he is used to putting a toothpick in his glass in bars to distinguish it from other people's glasses. But at that time, apparently, he drank too much, since he did not even notice how he swallowed a 6-centimeter toothpick.
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During the 4 years that he had heart problems, the Chinese spent more than 200 thousand yuan on various pills, and only when they did not help him, he turned to doctors for help. He also had frequent fever, but conventional therapists were unable to find the cause of his illness.
It got to the point that some doctors began to suspect that he had severe blood poisoning and even leukemia.