EXPERIENCING headaches?
Perhaps you should check whether there are some chopsticks embedded in your brain after the unusual case of a 35-year-old Vietnamese man whose doctors concluded that his five months of severe head pain were probably related to the eating implements they found inside his head.
The man sought help at the Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi, and after a CT scan (pictured), the medicos diagnosed pneumocephalus or high intracranial pressure.
Case notes reported by Vietnam's Dantri newspaper confirm it was caused by a pair of broken chopsticks, which had been shoved up his nose and pierced the cranial cavity.
He doesn't recall how they got there but does remember being involved in a fight earlier whilst in a heavily intoxicated state which saw him end up in the emergency room.
"Doctors patched him up and sent him on his way without anyone realising the chopsticks were stuck up his nose.
All's well that ends well, with endoscopic surgery successfully undertaken to remove the foreign object.
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