52-year-old ignored food and ate cutlery instead, say doctors
52-year-old ignored food and ate cutlery instead, say doctors
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Surgeons removed 78 different items of cutlery from Margaret Daalman's stomach after she came to hospital complaining of stomach pains.
An astonishing X-ray taken before the operation showed dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside the 52-year-old patient.
"She seems to have been suffering from some sort of obsession and every time she sat down for a meal she would ignore the food and eat the cutlery," said one medic.
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Woman of Steel: The cutlery removed from the Margaret Daalman's stomach. Her X-ray shows the cutlery in her body |
Daalman works as a secretary of an estate agent and told doctors, "I don't know why, but I felt an urge to eat the silverware I could not help myself."
Personality disorder
Medics also revealed it was not the first time that she had been treated for eating cutlery.
They said she has been diagnosed as suffering from a borderline personality disorder that left her with an urge to eat cutlery and she was now getting therapy.
Doctors said there have reportedly been other cases as well of people being treated for the urge to eat unsuitable objects but none that appear to have consumed quite as much cutlery in a single session.
They confirmed that the woman had only ever eaten forks and spoons but never knives. They were unable to explain why.
The woman made a full recovery and is said to be responding well to her treatment for the obsession.
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