<p class="title">Objects such as mangalsutra, bangles and iron nails, weighing around 1.5 kg in total, were removed from the stomach of a mentally-ill woman after a surgery at the civil hospital here, a senior doctor said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman, identified as Sangita, is in her mid-40s and suffers from `acuphagia', a rare disorder which causes the person to eat metallic objects, the doctor said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Iron nails, nuts and bolts, safety pins, U-pins, hairpins, bracelets, chains, mangalsutra, copper ring and bangles among other things were taken out of her stomach after the operation which lasted for over two hours, said Dr Nitin Parmar of the hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was brought to the civil hospital from a government-run mental hospital where she had been admitted after being found wandering in the city streets, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She complained of stomach pain. Her stomach was found to be stone-hard. X-ray revealed several foreign objects in her body, so an operation was performed. Safety pins were protruding from her lung and had punctured the stomach," Dr Parmar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman hails from Shirdi in Maharashtra and the mental hospital authorities are trying to find her relatives, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She has been kept under observation and her condition is stable, the doctor added. </p>
<p class="title">Objects such as mangalsutra, bangles and iron nails, weighing around 1.5 kg in total, were removed from the stomach of a mentally-ill woman after a surgery at the civil hospital here, a senior doctor said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman, identified as Sangita, is in her mid-40s and suffers from `acuphagia', a rare disorder which causes the person to eat metallic objects, the doctor said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Iron nails, nuts and bolts, safety pins, U-pins, hairpins, bracelets, chains, mangalsutra, copper ring and bangles among other things were taken out of her stomach after the operation which lasted for over two hours, said Dr Nitin Parmar of the hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She was brought to the civil hospital from a government-run mental hospital where she had been admitted after being found wandering in the city streets, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She complained of stomach pain. Her stomach was found to be stone-hard. X-ray revealed several foreign objects in her body, so an operation was performed. Safety pins were protruding from her lung and had punctured the stomach," Dr Parmar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman hails from Shirdi in Maharashtra and the mental hospital authorities are trying to find her relatives, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She has been kept under observation and her condition is stable, the doctor added. </p>