An Indian man has undergone life-saving surgery after swallowing 40 metal knives - because he liked the way they tasted.
Jarnail
Singh, 42, was admitted to The Corporate Hospital in Gurdaspur, India, a
few days ago with complaints of abdomen pain and weakness.
A
team of surgeons were astonished when they discovered he had swallowed
not one, not two, but 40 knives over the last two months because he
liked the way they tasted.
One of the
five surgeons on hand, Dr Jitinder Malhotra, branded it as the most
dreadful surgery he had seen in the last 20 years of practicing.
He
said: 'When we began diagnosis, we found the cause of the pain
puzzling. We did an ultrasound, which revealed some solid mass in his
stomach, shaped like cancer.
'The
patient then told us he had an uncontrollable urge to eat knives. What
is astonishing is that he had been eating knives since the past two
months.
'This was very unnerving, I have not witnessed something like this in my career as a doctor.'
After five hours of surgery, Jarnail was somehow successfully treated and will be discharged from hospital in the next few days.
