Man Visits ER with bloated stomach

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Diagnostic dilemma: Speed eating a 7-pound burger sent a man to ER unable to pass gas

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A 30-year-old man in Singapore visited the emergency room with a bloated stomach and gut pain.

Doctors found his stomach and upper part of his small intestine were "grossly distended with food material" The man's intestines had been pushed over to the left side of his abdomen, flattening his pancreas.

Doctors considered performing a gastrostomy — surgically opening the stomach through the abdominal wall — to remove the undigested food.

But the patient soon began passing gas, suggesting that his digestive system was starting to process the huge mass of chewed-up burger.

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