A 14-year-old girl from China suddenly complains of severe abdominal pain and suffers from constipation and a loss of appetite. The teenager's alarmed parents take her to hospital where doctors take a frightening X-ray that shows how lucky she is, as The Sun reports!
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Excessive consumption of a trendy drink
The reason for her pain is excessive consumption of a trendy drink. The girl, named Zhu Li, drinks a lot of bubble tea, a trendy drink from eastern Asia that has been discussed many times before. The hype around bubble tea continues, but people are not sure how good or bad it really is for your health.
However, in this case, it is not the tea but the 'bubbles,' the tapioca pearls, that are in the tea and account for the name and popularity, especially among young people.
The tapioca pearls floating in the bubble tea must have been difficult to digest and led to her stomach problems. To make matters worse, the girl did not chew the beads, but swallowed them whole. The x-ray that the medics took is disturbing.
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100 pieces clog the stomach
Due to the large amounts of tea she drank, more than 100 pearls accumulated in her stomach, because her stomach could not digest them....
The doctors try laxatives and it works. The 14-year-old is lucky, because the beads can be excreted naturally and her stomach can start its normal digestive process again.
This article has been translated from Gentside DE.
