{"id":342286,"date":"2018-01-04T04:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/surgeons-find-ketchup-packet-inside-womans-bowel-rt-world-news\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T04:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:48:56","slug":"surgeons-find-ketchup-packet-inside-womans-bowel-rt-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/surgeons-find-ketchup-packet-inside-womans-bowel-rt-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons find ketchup packet inside woman\u2019s bowel \u2014 RT World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.01\/thumbnail\/5a4cd285fc7e93253c8b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 3 Jan, 2018 12:48 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        A woman who doctors diagnosed with a serious bowel condition underwent surgery only to find that her abdominal pain was caused by a packet of Heinz Ketchup she had swallowed six years earlier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>For six years the woman believed the bouts of acute abdominal pain she suffered were caused by the chronic intestinal disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/414647-doctor-suspended-anal-catheters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: Doctor suspended for reusing disposable anal catheters on multiple patients<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 41 year old suffered the symptoms in three-day spells before they would resolve spontaneously, a case study in the British Medical Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3702938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reveals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem persisted despite treatment and eventually doctors at Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospital in England decided keyhole surgery was the only option.<\/p>\n<p>When the woman went under the knife surgeons discovered two pieces of plastic bearing the Heinz branding. The plastic appeared to come from a sauce sachet and it had caused an inflamed mass to develop in her small intestine.<\/p>\n<p>The woman had no recollection of eating a meal involving the sauce packet that caused her years of pain. After the sachet was removed her symptoms vanished and she was still symptom-free five months later.<\/p>\n<p>The study notes that it\u2019s the only case they could find of plastic mimicking Crohn\u2019s disease in a patient. There had been four other similar incidents in the past, but in all of those cases the ingested object was a toothpick.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is important to consider alternative surgical diagnoses in patients with presumed Crohn&#8217;s disease unresponsive to standard treatment,\u201d<\/em> the report concludes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/414897-heinz-sachet-crohns-stomach\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 3 Jan, 2018 12:48 A woman who doctors diagnosed with a serious bowel condition underwent surgery only to find that her abdominal pain was caused by a packet of Heinz Ketchup she had swallowed six years earlier. For six years the woman believed the bouts of acute abdominal pain she suffered were caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}