Vietnam doctors remove 1kg of metal objects from patient with pica disorder
The patient suffers from pica, an eating disorder that involves swallowing items that are not typically thought of as food
Vietnamese tween has huge hairball removed from stomach
She has had the habit of plucking out her own hairs and swallowing them since she was two years old
Ho Chi Minh City hospital saves two children who swallowed key, screw
X-ray images showed that the key was lying in the girl’s stomach, while the sharp screw had traveled further to the intestine of the boy