He goes to the hospital for abdominal pain and they find his toothbrush stuck for 50 years.
The incident took place in Anhui Province, located in eastern China. Yang, a 64-year-old man, presented himself to a hospital due to unusual abdominal discomfort. What the doctors found stunned both the patient and the medical team: an object that had been in his small intestine for more than 50 years.
According to the newspaper report According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) , medical tests identified an unusual, elongated object. Yang underwent an 80-minute endoscopic procedure to remove a 17-centimeter-long toothbrush that he had accidentally swallowed when he was 12 years old.
He thought he would be expelled naturally.During his testimony, Yang mentioned that he never told his parents out of embarrassment and believed the object would be passed naturally or eventually dissolve over time. However, none of this happened. Although much time passed, the man never experienced pain or showed any symptoms, until this year.
Dr. Zhou noted that the brush became lodged in a "gap" in the intestine, remaining virtually immobile, preventing serious damage. Under normal circumstances, such objects could cause a fatal intestinal perforation.
Yang's case became very popular on Chinese social media, garnering millions of reactions. Doctors and internet users alike described the event as "a medical miracle."
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