Mentally-ill man who was chained up by his family to stop him escaping his home in India has surgery to remove a padlock from his throat after he swallowed it whole
- Jitendra Jumar, 22, swallowed the lock while his family weren’t watching him
- The 6cm padlock got stuck in his throat and his family rushed him to hospital
- Doctors were unable to remove it during a non-invasive endoscopy procedure
- Doctors decided to carry out emergency four-hour surgery to have it removed
Doctors have performed life-saving surgery after a man swallowed a padlock and it got stuck in his throat.
Jitendra Jumar, 22, who suffers with mental health difficulties, swallowed the lock while his family weren’t watching him.
The 6cm padlock got stuck in his throat, and his family rushed him to hospital in the city of Ranchi, the capital of the state of Jharkhand, while he gasped for air.
Jitendra Jumar, 22, pictured here, who suffers with mental health difficulties, swallowed the lock while his family weren’t watching him. He is now being fed through a nasal tube
Doctors were unable to remove it during a non-invasive endoscopy procedure, so had to perform a four-hour op to get it out.
The operation was successful, and Mr Kumar is in hospital recovering, being fed through a nasal tube.
Dr Pradeep Jumar Singh, head of the ear, nose and throat department at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital, in India said: ‘The patient was brought to our hospital at around 12.30 am gasping for breath.
‘An x-ray was immediately taken to determine the exact spot where the ingested lock had got stuck.
The 6cm padlock got stuck in his throat and required a four-hour operation to remove it, after a non invasive method failed
Dr Pradeep Jumar Singh, head of the ear, nose and throat department at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital, in India said the patient is recovering well
‘Following this, we decided to carry out emergency surgery to have it removed.
‘As the lock was around 6cm in size and had got tightly wedged in the food pipe.
‘It couldn’t be removed by non-invasive endoscopy procedure.
Dr Pradeep Jumar Singh, head of the ear, nose and throat department at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, in said: ‘The patient was brought to our hospital gasping for breath’
‘As the lock was around 6cm in size and had got tightly wedged in the food pipe. ‘It couldn’t be removed by non-invasive endoscopy procedure=,’ the doctor added. Procedure is shown
‘Left with no other option, and to save Jitendra’s life, we decided to go for an open surgery to have the foreign body removed.
‘The patient is doing fine and will be discharged soon after a 10 to 12 day stay.’
The operation took place on February 14.
Psychologically ill man addicted to swallowing two-inch NAILS has 116 of them removed from his intestine
Stomach-churning footage shows surgeons removing more than 100 nails from a man’s intestines.
Doctors said Bhola Shankar, from Bundi in Rajasthan state, India, was lucky to be alive after gobbling down the two-inch spikes.
At least 116 iron nails, which somehow did not pierce his stomach, were recovered from the 43-year-old’s body.
Surgeons had to remove more than 100 nails from a man’s intestines after an X-ray (pictured) revealed the his unusual habit in Rajasthan, India
While he was in the hospital, doctors discovered the man had also been eating other pieces of metal including wires – but could not explain how they ended up inside his body.
He was brought into the Bundi government hospital and deemed psychologically unwell after an X-ray revealed his unusual habit.
The patient – who is thought to be schizophrenic – had reportedly kept it a secret from his family.
Dr Anil Saini, who led a team of doctors as they conducted the operation, said it was the first case of its kind in Rajasthan.
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