Chinese man has to have cigarette lighter removed from stomach after drinking session
- Patient initially felt fine but two days later he started to suffer severe pains and medical staff noticed that the lighter appeared to be leaking fluid
- This was not the first time that doctors at the hospital in Liaoning have had to remove lighters from inside their patients
Doctors in northeast China had to remove a cigarette lighter from a man’s stomach after he swallowed it during a drinking session.
The 25-year-old, from Shenyang in Liaoning province, went to see a doctor last Friday after he started suffering from unbearable stomach pains three days after he swallowed the lighter, the Liaoshen Evening News reported.
He said he had felt fine at first, and had drunk more beer over the next couple of days, but then started vomiting on the third day.
The man also told medical staff that he initially assumed the lighter would pass through his body naturally and had not felt the need to seek medical attention until he started feeling unwell.
Liu Xi, an endoscopy specialist from Shenyang No 5 People’s Hospital, said doctors had noticed the smell of lighter fluid on the man’s breath and, using a gastroscope, discovered that one end of the lighter was broken.