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Woman Accidentally Swallowed 15cm Spoon As She Gulped Down Noodles For Lunch

A Chinese woman was rushed to hospital after she accidentally swallowed a 15cm spoon while gulping down noodles for lunch.

The 27-year-old, surnamed only as Wang, mistakenly sucked the utensil down her throat as she was eating the snack at her home in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, recently.

The noodles were apparently wrapped around the spoon, and the tool went down her gullet alongside them.

At hospital, she told doctors what had happened and said the spoon had been lodged inside her body for more than three hours.

But medics initially thought she was joking because she didn’t appear to be in any pain.

They started to treat her seriously, however, after a CT scan and an X-ray showed the utensil firmly stuck in her stomach.

Doctors decided her case was urgent and bumped her up the surgery schedule to rush her in for a two-hour operation.

The spoon was removed successfully and Wang has since made a swift recovery.

Hospital sources said that, if she had not been treated immediately, then the spoon could have caused a rupture in Wang’s intestines.

This, they claimed, would have caused immense pain and, in severe cases, could have proved to be fatal.

(Picture credited to CEN)