Doctors have successfully removed 16 toothbrushes and a three-inch iron from a teenage boy’s stomach after he began eating the objects to cure his addiction to eating soil.
Harish Devi, 14, ate the dental equipment after a holistic practitioner told him it would cure his soil-eating habit, Mirror UK reported.
His family also believed Harish, from Uttar Pradesh, India, had been possessed by a ghost and that consuming toothbrushes and nails would help heal him.
But after eating the items, Harish started feeling pain in his abdomen.
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He was taken to Baba Raghav Das Medical College, where the bonkers discovery was made.
Doctors operated on the 14-year-old and took out the toothbrushes and a three-inch nail from his insides.
Following the removal of the foreign objects, Harish’s health has improved and doctors are hopeful he will make a full recovery soonest.
Gruesome photos show snippets from the surgery, with some of the toothbrushes being removed from the patient’s stomach.
One doctor can be seen holding up an X-ray to show the large iron nail in the middle of the youngster’s body.
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