Toothbrush swallower struggled to be believed: doctorBy Lo Hsin-chun and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerA hospital worker had difficulty believing a woman who said that she had accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, the doctor who removed the item said on Wednesday. Tsai Yuan-jung (蔡元榮), a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Pingtung Christian Hospital, said that the attending nurse asked the woman to repeat her problem several times, thinking that she had misheard her. A toothbrush is pictured in an undated photograph after a doctor at Pingtung Christian Hospital removed it from a woman who swallowed it on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Pingtung Christian HospitalThe woman told medical staff that she accidentally swallowed the object while brushing her teeth in a daze having woken up early that morning. An 18cm toothbrush was removed from the 44-year-old’s esophagus, Tsai said.

Source: Taipei Times April 16, 2022 02:35 UTC