Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach

The man started swallowing metal objects, some measuring 10cm long, when he gave up alcohol, hospital official says

Doctors in Lithuania have removed more than a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who started swallowing metallic objects after quitting alcohol.

The man, who was not identified for reasons of patient confidentiality, was admitted to hospital in the Baltic port city of Klaipeda with severe abdominal pain.