Toothbrush in the intestine: Rare surgery helps doctors to remove the item after 52 years; Man says that it was accidentally swallowed at 12

A 64 -year -old man in China was surprised to know that a toothbrush was stuck in his intestines for 52 years. The person said that when he was 12 years old, he accidentally swallowed it, but was very scared to tell his parents and assumed that it would be dissolved on his own, as told by South China Morning Post.For decades, he did not feel any symptoms, but recently he felt a strange sensation in his stomach, which gave him medical help. Doctors found that 17 cm toothbrush was recorded in his small intestine and it was safely removed through endoscopic surgery that lasted for 80 minutes.Doctors said that he was lucky because it did not cause any serious damage in decades. In the last three years, it was the longest surgery.Doctor Jhou said that a toothbrush inside the stomach can cause severe internal damage to internal tissue. It can further give rise to intestinal hole which can be fatal. Yang was lucky that the brush was recorded in a crook of the intestine and had barely gone for decades, he said.This unusual case has shocked the neatness. A user said, “How lucky is he to survive with a toothbrush in his body for five decades? How can he think that it will dissolve himself? How did he manage to swallow that toothbrush?”Another person said, “It is a miracle that he did not feel even for five decades.”Last year, doctors in South -West China’s Sichuan province helped a woman remove a super glue tube that was 15 cm long and 2.5 cm wide.He said that he accidentally swallowed it and thought that the digestive system of his body would naturally deal with it.Doctors advised to do a regular body check up to avoid such problems.