Doctors Retrieve Spoon from Man’s Esophagus — A Year After He Swallowed It

Doctors Retrieve Spoon from Man’s Esophagus — A Year After He Swallowed It

A man in China had a steel spoon lodged in his esophagus for a year, but surprisingly, the half-swallowed utensil didn’t cause too much discomfort.

The man — identified only as “Mr. Zhang” — swallowed the spoon on a dare in 2017, and it promptly got stuck in the narrow tube connecting his mouth and stomach, representatives at Xinjiang Meikuang General Hospital said in a statement.

Months passed, but the irritation wasn’t serious enough to prompt the man to seek medical attention.

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