Man Accidentally Swallows Toothbrush, Here's What Happened!

The management of the Gastroenterology and Liver Teaching Hospital in Baghdad announced the extraction of a foreign body (toothbrush) from the stomach of a 30-year-old man. A statement from the hospital's management indicated that "a medical team at the Gastroenterology and Liver Teaching Hospital conducted an endoscopic procedure to extract a foreign body (toothbrush) from the stomach of a 30-year-old patient who had swallowed it accidentally." The statement added that "the extraction of the foreign body was performed using an endoscope without surgical intervention and without anesthesia, and it was successful."