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Stomach's Upset? Darn Those Socks!
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This is important.
Please stop eating your socks immediately.
A Seattle woman complained to a hospital that she was sick to
her stomach with a dull pain in her back.
The doctors found a large bezoar in her stomach.
A bezoar is a big hard lump of something.
When asked about the bezoar, the woman said she chewed on her
tube socks when she was nervous. She ate half a sock a night, she
said.
The woman stopped eating socks. She got rid of the bezoar, too,
with the help of some drugs.
"It makes you wonder whether there isn't a psychological
component to all of this," said Dr. Jack ...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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