We have a Darwin Award Winner: Buliminic women brags she has no gag reflex, swallows knife.
Woman laughs, accidentally swallows knife
"Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife" -- that's a grabbier title than most ones you see in medical journals.
The short item, a clinical image in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, explains that a 30-year-old woman with a history of bulimia had been bragging to friends that she no longer had a gag reflex. She put the knife into her mouth and then laughed -- at which point she swallowed the knife.
Here are the X-rays. The knife was removed -- no physical damage done. The woman, it later transpired, had swallowed a knife once before. She was referred to a psychiatrist.
The gut is more resilient than one might imagine: I once wrote an article about a man who ate an entire four-seater Cessna, bit by bit; he had started out on glass and bicycles, and moved up. (Read about Michel Lotito.) The same article also featured a British legend, Peter Dowdeswell (who once claimed many of the competitive eating titles in the Guinness World Records, until they were removed from its pages) -- his accomplishments include 100 yards of spaghetti in 21.7 seconds and 113 doughnuts in eight minutes, as well as a few edgier ones involving swallowing glass or razor blades. DO NOT TRY THIS!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/la-heb-woman-laughs-accidentally-swallows-knife-20120802,0,1352096.story
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