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A former policeman told me about a case he dealt with in the late 1970s. A man had got up in the morning, had breakfast, got in his car and drove off to work. H
by scandox 1y ago
A former policeman told me about a case he dealt with in the late 1970s. A man had got up in the morning, had breakfast, got in his car and drove off to work. Halfway to work he had coughed a large amount of blood onto the windscreen of his car, collapsed over the wheel and died - crashing the car in the process.
He interviewed the man's spouse. They had a cocktail party at home the previous night and had been drinking heavily. At a certain point in the evening her husband had knocked back his drink so energetically that he had swallowed the cocktail pick along with the drink. The people talking to him saw what happened and everybody thought this was extremely funny, including her husband.
The pathologist confirmed that the cocktail pick had worked its way through the lining of his oesophagus and had eventually reached his heart.
- lifestyleguru 1y agoYeah don't swallow things which cannot be digested. I have one anecdotal story of a person swallowing dried bay leaf which then got stuck "at the exit".
- n1b0m 1y agoSurely that wouldn’t survive the stomach acids.
- javawizard 1y agoThey do: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-685/bay-leaf#sideeffects https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-685/bay-lea...
- abrookewood 1y agoWow .. I had no idea. I'd always assumed you were supposed to remove them from cooking because they would taste bad if eaten directly - not that you couldn't actually digest them!
- OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y agoYeah a lot of different leaves don't break down well in the digestive track without friction or longer digestion periods (which are adaptations that actual herbivores have). This is also why they (bay leaves or more generally all laurel leaves) are such a massive pain in the ass to compost in most places. The wonders of insoluble fiber and wax coatings on leaves.
- woleium 1y agos/track/tract/g
- OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y agolol yep. idk how I managed to do that one.
- n1b0m 1y agoI stand corrected. Something to watch out for
- hshdhdhehd 1y agoExcept for dietary fibre :)
- sph 1y ago> Yeah don't swallow things which cannot be digested. This gentleman would have disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito Quote: "His digestive system allowed him to consume up to 900 g (2.0 lb) of metal per day."
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoSpiders^wMetals Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
- Esophagus4 1y agoFortunately it’s not always bad news! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30565781 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30565781
- ownagefool 1y agoI swallowed a shirt pin as a child. Went to hospital, x-rays, etc. Originally the set me nil by mouth and were set to operate, but the consultant overruled and luckily it passed naturally. (:
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- cafard 1y agoA toothpick did in the writer Sherwood Anderson, in his case by piercing part of the digestive track and bringing on peritonitis.