A woman was rushed to a hospital after feeling “weak and emaciated” only for doctors to discover that she had eaten over 200 pieces of jewelry weighing as much as three pounds.
In her stomach, 26-year-old Runi Khatun had $70,000 worth of precious items including a watch, 4 keys, 5 anklets, 8 lockets, 11 nose rings, 46 coins, 69 chains, and 80 earrings.
While the majority of jewelry were made of brass, some pieces included expensive gold items that she had got from her mother and her brother’s jewelry store.
According to the family, they had no idea that Runi had an eating disorder that caused her to swallow jewelry and pile it up in her stomach.
In addition, they claimed the girl always cried when they asked her if she had any idea where the missing items could have gone.
The 26-year-old was rushed to a local hospital after her condition reached a critical point at which she couldn’t consume food without immediately throwing it all up.
“The patient looked weak and emaciated at the time when she was admitted to the hospital,” Dr. Siddhartha Biswas of the Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital claimed.
“Her albumin and hemoglobin count were so low that we could not perform an operation soon. Her condition was so critical that she required at least five bottles of blood.
“She could not even intake food physically so we had to administer Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) to artificially inject food through her mouth.”
After one week of intensive care, the doctors were finally able to perform on the woman and remove the foreign objects from her stomach.
While the woman’s condition has been stable following the surgery, the family hopes they can find professional assistance to help the 26-year-old beat her eating disorder.
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