#1 Woman swallows 78 items of cutlery
A woman obsessed with swallowing spoons and forks was forced to have an operation after she ate an entire canteen of cutlery.
An astonishing X-ray taken before the operation showed dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside the 52-year-old patient.
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Surgeons in Rotterdam, Holland, removed 78 different items of cutlery from Margaret Daalmans's stomach after she came to hospital complaining of stomach pains.
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Medics also revealed it was not the first time that she had been treated for eating the cutlery.
They said she has been diagnosed as suffering from a borderline personality disorder that left her with an urge to eat cutlery.
#4 Woman with stomach pain is found to have a 40-year-old FETUS inside her
A Colombian woman suffering from stomach pain was found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her.
The 82-year-old, from Bogota, had what is known as 'lithopedion', or stone baby, When the unborn child develops outside the womb.
#5 Another Woman who carried a stone baby for 60 years
Huang Yijun, 92, of Huangjiaotan, southern China, carried a stone baby for 60 years.
Doctors informed her that she would need a caesarean section.
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A calcified fetus was removed from a 92-year-old Chinese woman, Huang Yijun.
#7 Girl Toddler Nearly Dies From Swallowing 37 High-Powered Magnets
The parents of a 3-year-old girl from Oregon who had "flu-like" symptoms thought their daughter caught the flu until an X-ray showed a circle resembling a bracelet in the toddler's stomach.
Payton had swallowed 34 high-powered desktop toy magnets that actually snapped her intestines together and tore three holes in her lower intestine and one in her stomach.
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Payton Bushnell's stomach X-ray. Doctors had initially thought that the 3-year-old had swallowed a bracelet.
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The toddler survived the intensive procedure and made a full recovery.
#10 Swallowed pen found after 25 years
76-year-old woman was referred for urgent investigation after she developed sudden weight loss and diarrhoea.
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While performing a CT scan to look at her abdomen, doctors found the startling sight of the felt-tip pen, which they then surgically removed.
Amazingly, the pen, which had resided in her stomach for more than two decades, did not cause her any discernible damage to her stomach.
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After a 25-year exposure to stomach acid, the pen was corroded and the plastic was flaky; however, the pen still contained usable ink and could write.
#13 Massive 9lbs hairball removed from teenager’s stomach
A teenage girl from Kyrgyzstan found it hard to stomach the truth when X-rays revealed the cause of her severe stomach pains was a massive 9-pound hairball.
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The hairball, which weighed 9lbs, was formed because the girl chewed the tips of her hair, and even ate hair and bits of wool she found on the carpet at home.
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Doctors said that despite looking through 50 years of medical records, they have never been able to find a case involving a hairball this large.
#16 Woman Pregnant With A Snake
A woman's stomach in South Africa kept growing as she and other people assumed she was pregnant. However, instead of finding a baby, doctors found something else inside 49-year-old Maria Tsotetsi a snake.
In an attempt to help, Tsotetsi, her then boyfriend, took her to a bishop to cure her.
According to Tsotetsi, the bishop told her to remove all of her clothes and he gave her muthi, a herbal medicine.
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A few days later she became sick and her teeth began to fall out.
Traditional healer Ntsimbi Ngema said: "This kind of thing is done by jealous lovers. There is no way Maria could have a new boyfriend because he could die after having sex with her."
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A 3-year-old boy in Peru had surgery to remove the body of a "parasitic twin" growing inside his stomach.
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The fetus weighed a pound and a half and was 9 inches long.
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The boy had his twin brother's partially formed fetus with eyes, bones, and hair on the cranium, but did not develop a brain, lungs, heart or intestines.
According to Dr Jonathan Fanaroff, some conjoined twins can survive as "parasites," but not when one twin absorbs the other.
