Whether as an act of subterfuge or to meet a psychological need, or even by accident, people swallow things that, simply put, they have no business putting in their mouths. And quite often, gastroenterologists are called in to handle the consequences.
At the 2018 annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, GI specialists presented reports of a variety of these ingestion cases, ranging from a fistful of caustic batteries to dozens of packets of potentially lethal heroin.
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