Lightbulb removed from man's stomach in Saudi hospital
The patient had swallowed the lightbulb when he was 10 years old.
(Web Desk) - Saudi doctors removed a lightbulb from a patient’s stomach this week. The 21-year-old Asian man had swallowed the bulb as a child some eleven years ago.
The man went to the emergency department at Prince Saud bin Jalawi Hospital in the eastern al-Ahsa, complaining of severe nausea, abdominal pain, high fever and fatigue, al Weeam reports.
He underwent several examinations and doctors found a strange object in his stomach.
The man was taken to surgery, where doctors made the shocking discovery that the object was actually a lightbulb.
He later told doctors he had swallowed the lightbulb when he was 10 years old. Surprisingly, the lightbulb appears to have been well-preserved in the man’s intestines over the last decade.
The operation lasted for an hour and 15 minutes and the patient is now in good health and is expected to remain at the hospital to be monitored for a few days.
