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Tuberculosis Patient Swallows 117 Coins in Search For Cure
 
 
 

Pradeep Hode, a 30 year-old from Diva in Thane, qualifies to be Mumbai’s Metal Man. A chronic patient of tuberculosis of the abdomen, Hode — over the past few months — swallowed 117 coins, which were finally removed on Friday after a surgery by doctors at KEM Hospital, Parel.

Hode had been suffering from severe abdominal pain in the past few months. Based on hearsay and some bizarre logic of his own, Hode started swallowing coins, hoping that the heavy metal would reduce abdominal pain and create pressure to have regular bowel movement. However, his condition only went from bad to worse.

02-23-04-pod Tuberculosis Patient Swallows 117 Coins in Search For Cure picture

Parmeshwar Gond, senior medical officer at KEM Hospital, said Hode came with intestinal obstruction symptoms on Friday morning. “He was vomitting, had constipation and continuous abdominal pain. His bowel movement had totally stopped because of blockages in the lower abdomen,” he said.

Gond said the hospital immediately put Hode through the standard investigation procedures like CT scan and X-ray of his abdomen to know the exact position of the coins in the stomach. “He was taken for surgery without wasting any time,” he added. Sameer Rege, under the guidance of P Hardikar of the general surgery departmment at KEM, performed the operation on Hode for nearly two hours to remove all the coins he had swallowed.

“We had to dissect and remove a portion of his small bowel (alium) as many coins had deposited in that region. The metal had affected the condition of the small bowel,” Gond said.

(Times of India)

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8 Comments »

Comment by Emrikol
2007-06-20 15:55:04

That picture is over three years old. You might let people know that it’s from a patient with Pica, and not the one in this article.

Thanks.

Comment by Sun Tzu
2007-06-20 16:08:25

Pic is old and is supposed to be a pic of a guy who swallowed a bunch of coins.

Story is unchanged..

You are now in the KNOW!

 
 
Comment by Shadus
2007-06-20 16:11:29
Comment by Sun Tzu
2007-06-20 16:15:04

That is a completely different story and fyi i got the image on google image search.

Comment by WMoonFox
2007-06-21 10:37:34

That doesn’t make it any less old and busted…

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Comment by TFFDavid
2007-06-20 17:22:08

How is the patient doing these days?

 
Comment by PENIX
2007-06-20 18:01:38

I guess his theory kinda made sense, in a stupid way.

 
Comment by Motorcycle Guy
2007-06-21 15:47:17

Wow haha funny how people on the internet seem to know everything.

 
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