Arunachal Man Swallows Toothbrush While Brushing, Doctors Remove it from His Stomach

Doctors in Arunachal Pradesh’s Pasighat recently removed a toothbrush from a man’s stomach after he accidentally swallowed it while brushing his teeth. A resident of Roing Lower Dibang Valley, the 39-year-old man said he was trying to clean the tooth cavities when the brush slipped off his hand and he swallowed it. His family members then rushed him to a local clinic which then referred him to the Bakin Pertin General Hospital where doctors conducted an X-ray but could not locate the toothbrush in the man’s oesophagus. Doctors from a southern Chinese hospital had last year removed a 14-centimetre-long toothbrush from a man’s intestines he had swallowed 20 years ago in a bid to die by suicide.