421 coins and bolts in man's stomach

A man admitted to a hospital in India with severe stomach pain was found to have swallowed around 6 kg of iron objects, including hundreds of coins and fishnet pellets. Sonography and X-ray could not reveal more than an intestinal blockage and a few lumps in the stomach.

So doctors decided to conduct a surgery, and what they found left them baffled. Surgeons removed 421 coins, 197 fishnet pellets, three keys and 19 bolts of bicycle chain in a three-hour operation.

Doctors suspect Kuleshwar Singh, 28 is suffering from a psychological or an eating disorder. Doctors said the patient is either suffering from schizophrenia or a rare condition called pica, which creates an unusual desire to eat non-nutritional items,

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