China 25-year-old male in Liaoning province swallowed a lighter while drinking beer and had surgery to remove it.

Young man in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, went to see a doctor on November 22, three days after swallowing the lighter, because his stomach could not stand it. He said at first he felt fine and still drank beer for two days after that, but on the third day he started to feel nauseous.

The patient explained that after swallowing the cigarette lighter wrongly during a beer meal, he thought it would be naturally expelled from the body, so he didn't need to see a doctor.

Young men in Shenyang, China swallow lighters while drinking alcohol. Artwork: Pixabay

Liu Xi, an endoscopist at the No. 5 People's Hospital of Shenyang, said doctors smelled the gas in the patient's breath and found a tip of a lighter that had broken during a laparoscopy. thick. The lighter was surrounded by gastric juice and many parts of the patient's stomach lining were injured.

Liu said doctors had to use special equipment attached to the end of the endoscope to grip the lighter and pull it out of the young man's body. He explained that gastric juice could have caused the lighter liquid to leak, damaging the digestive tract and causing ulcers and perforation in the patient's stomach.