Man Swallowed 40 Knives Because He Liked The Way They Taste

Doctors removed 40 knives from the man’s body

42-year-old Jarnail Singh was admitted to The Corporate Hospital in Gurdaspur, India, a few days ago with complaints of abdomen pain and weakness.

A team of surgeons were astonished when they discovered he had swallowed not one, not two, but 40 knives over the last two months because he liked the way they tasted.

One of the five surgeons on hand, Dr Jitinder Malhotra, branded it as the most dreadful surgery he had seen in the last 20 years of practicing.

He said: ‘When we began diagnosis, we found the cause of the pain puzzling. We did an ultrasound, which revealed some solid mass in his stomach, shaped like cancer.

He liked the taste of the knives

One of the surgeons said it was the worst surgery he’s had to carry out

‘The patient then told us he had an uncontrollable urge to eat knives. What is astonishing is that he had been eating knives since the past two months.

‘This was very unnerving, I have not witnessed something like this in my career as a doctor.'

After a gruesome five hours of surgery with lots of bleeding, Jarnail was somehow successfully treated and will be discharged from hospital in the upcoming days.

X-rays showing the knives inside his body

All the knives lined up after they were removed

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