EXCLUSIVE Doctors remove 452 'metal objects' from man's stomach after he swallowed bolts, keys and stones during psychotic episode READ MORE: Man thought tummy pain was simply age but it was deadly cancer By John Ely Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 16:23, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 16:42, 19 August 2024 e-mail View comments A group od medics have reported a bizarre case in which they were forced to extract over 450 small metal objects from a 37 year-old man's stomach. Over 6lbs (nearly 3kg) of screws, metal nuts, keys, plaques and 'other metal parts' as well as stones were eventually found in the patient's insides. Startling X-rays show the mass of metal blocking the exit of the man's stomach, which was causing him chronic stomach pain and frequent vomiting that left him unable to eat or drink.
Medics from the Iranian city of Ahvaz, near the country's border with Iraq , who reported the case said the patient was eventually diagnosed with psychosis, a mental condition where a person loses connection with reality. Documenting the case in the Journal of Medical Case Reports , doctors said they believed the patient had been ingesting the metallic collection for least three months. Startling X-Rays show the mass of metal blocking the exit of the man's stomach, with the 37-year-old believed to have ingested the metallic collection over at least three months An endoscopy, where a tiny flexible camera is inserted into the throat also confirmed the metallic mass Medics w.