Current Events > Woman Thinks She Has Crohn's Disease, But It Turns Out To Be A Ketchup Packet

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Mikablu 01/03/18 9:30:43 AM #1:	http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-thinks-she-has-crohns-disease-but-it-turns-out-to-be-a-ketchup-packet/ Six years ago the woman, then 35, began experiencing bouts of acute pain within her abdomen, as well as bloating, which lasted up to three days at a time. The patient was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a serious and life-altering inflammatory bowel disorder that can cause both these symptoms. She was treated for the disease, but was unresponsive, according to the British Medical Journal. She was admitted to hospital on several occasions over the course of several years due to her symptoms. When a team of doctors at the Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospital in Slough, UK, decided to operate, they found out why; her symptoms were actually caused by a Heinz ketchup sachet that had pierced the wall of her intestine. During keyhole surgery, the surgeons found two small foreign objects. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be pieces of a 6-year-old sachet of Heinz tomato sauce. They were removed from her intestine, which had become inflamed around where the packet had pierced the wall. Once the packet was removed, her symptoms disappeared almost immediately, and five months after the surgery they have entirely vanished. "It is important to consider alternative surgical diagnoses in patients with presumed Crohn's disease unresponsive to standard treatment," the authors write in the British Medical Journal. The case report notes a similar case where a 35-year-old man was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, before surgery confirmed it was a toothpick. However, this could still be a first in medical history. "To our knowledge," the doctors write, "this is the first report of a synthetic plastic packaging causing ileo-caecal junctional perforation mimicking Crohns disease." According to Sky News, the woman said she had no memory of eating a whole packet of ketchup without squeezing out the ketchup first. The woman, now 41, is fully recovered and presumably quite happy that her Crohn's disease turned out to be sauce. There's a link to the case study in the article. How does that even happen? <cite>Mikablu posted [p:893342718] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote>http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-thinks-she-has-crohns-disease-but-it-turns-out-to-be-a-ketchup-packet/ <quote>Six years ago the woman, then 35, began experiencing bouts of acute pain within her abdomen, as well as bloating, which lasted up to three days at a time. The patient was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a serious and life-altering inflammatory bowel disorder that can cause both these symptoms. She was treated for the disease, but was unresponsive, according to the British Medical Journal. She was admitted to hospital on several occasions over the course of several years due to her symptoms. When a team of doctors at the Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospital in Slough, UK, decided to operate, they found out why; her symptoms were actually caused by a Heinz ketchup sachet that had pierced the wall of her intestine. During keyhole surgery, the surgeons found two small foreign objects. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be pieces of a 6-year-old sachet of Heinz tomato sauce. They were removed from her intestine, which had become inflamed around where the packet had pierced the wall. Once the packet was removed, her symptoms disappeared almost immediately, and five months after the surgery they have entirely vanished. "It is important to consider alternative surgical diagnoses in patients with presumed Crohn's disease unresponsive to standard treatment," the authors write in the British Medical Journal. The case report notes a similar case where a 35-year-old man was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, before surgery confirmed it was a toothpick. However, this could still be a first in medical history. "To our knowledge," the doctors write, "this is the first report of a synthetic plastic packaging causing ileo-caecal junctional perforation mimicking Crohns disease." According to Sky News, the woman said she had no memory of eating a whole packet of ketchup without squeezing out the ketchup first. The woman, now 41, is fully recovered and presumably quite happy that her Crohn's disease turned out to be sauce.</quote> There's a link to the case study in the article. How does that even happen?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
frozenshock 01/03/18 9:31:46 AM #2:	Mikablu posted... How does that even happen? Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc --- I don't hate people, people hate me. <cite>frozenshock posted [p:893342758] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>How does that even happen?</quote> Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mikablu 01/03/18 9:33:07 AM #4:	frozenshock posted... Mikablu posted... How does that even happen? Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it. <cite>Mikablu posted [p:893342807] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>frozenshock posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>How does that even happen?</quote> Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc</quote> I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
HighOnSolar 01/03/18 9:33:36 AM #5:	she must have been really hungry that day --- Surf <cite>HighOnSolar posted [p:893342821] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote>she must have been really hungry that day</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
frozenshock 01/03/18 9:33:47 AM #6:	Mikablu posted... I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it. That's what happens when you stuff everything in your mouth at the same time They probably put the packet in the plate and she just stuff the entire plate in her mouth --- I don't hate people, people hate me. <cite>frozenshock posted [p:893342830] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it.</quote> That's what happens when you stuff everything in your mouth at the same time They probably put the packet in the plate and she just stuff the entire plate in her mouth</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
HighOnSolar 01/03/18 9:34:34 AM #7:	Mikablu posted... frozenshock posted... Mikablu posted... How does that even happen? Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it. lol well now we know why we chew our food --- Surf <cite>HighOnSolar posted [p:893342852] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote><cite>frozenshock posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>How does that even happen?</quote> Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc</quote> I meant her eating a ketchup packet. Article comments are wondering if it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it.</quote> lol well now we know why we chew our food</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Aristoph 01/03/18 9:34:53 AM #8:	Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules <cite>Aristoph posted [p:893342861] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote>Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
rhklce 01/03/18 9:35:07 AM #9:	Mikablu posted... it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it. This.. unless she just likes eating ketchup packets every so often. <cite>rhklce posted [p:893342868] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>it was a mistake at McDonalds or something and she didn't realize she ate it.</quote> This.. unless she just likes eating ketchup packets every so often.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kingdrake2 01/03/18 9:35:55 AM #10:	Aristoph posted... Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o read this quote, that's why it never was found. frozenshock posted... Mikablu posted... How does that even happen? Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc --- I'd hate to be that guy. he'll be dodging freak accidents for the rest of his life now. Final Destination rules - RickyTheBAWSE <cite>kingdrake2 posted [p:893342898] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>Aristoph posted...</cite> <quote>Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o</quote> read this quote, that's why it never was found. <cite>frozenshock posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>How does that even happen?</quote> Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Aristoph 01/03/18 9:45:01 AM #11:	kingdrake2 posted... Aristoph posted... Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o read this quote, that's why it never was found. frozenshock posted... Mikablu posted... How does that even happen? Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc 6 years. Even overcrowded hospitals would do some scans if it went 6 fucking years without ever seeing any results from the treatments. --- PSN ID: Aristoph http://www.youtube.com/user/SotCRules <cite>Aristoph posted [p:893343197] in Woman Thin... [t:76164025]...</cite> <quote><cite>kingdrake2 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Aristoph posted...</cite> <quote>Wouldn't that show up on some kind of scan, though? O_o</quote> read this quote, that's why it never was found. <cite>frozenshock posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mikablu posted...</cite> <quote>How does that even happen?</quote> Overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, a pressure to make a diagnostic in less than 2 minutes, etc</quote></quote> 6 years. Even overcrowded hospitals would do some scans if it went 6 fucking years without ever seeing any results from the treatments.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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