Ketchup may have helped the situation

Posted on July 12, 2003 09:40 PM by Joel Comm

Woman swallows fork trying to retrieve cockroach

An Israeli woman has swallowed a fork while trying to retrieve a cockroach from her throat.

The insect reportedly jumped into her mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel.

The 32-year-old tried to scoop the cockroach out with a fork, but ended up swallowing that as well.

Dr Nikola Adid, of the Poria Hospital in Tiberias, said: "It's a bit of a strange story. This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues have heard of anything similar either."

He operated on the woman to remove the fork from her stomach, but said the bug had already been digested.

An X-ray showed the fork, lodged sideways in her stomach. Adid says the woman is recovering well.

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