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From: iayork@panix.com (Ian A. York)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: More Fun with Intestinal Blockage
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:29:58 -0400

In article <4v21h3$4s5@panix2.panix.com>, Bo Bradham <bradham@panix.com> wrote: >
>During the oat bran craze (circa 1989) a fellow went into surgery
>because of an intestinal blockage. Doctors removed a two-foot
>long mass of oat bran from his intestine (the story didn't
>say small intestine or large).

Cooper SG. Tracey EJ.
Small-bowel obstruction caused by oat-bran bezoar. New England Journal of Medicine. 320(17):1148-9, 1989

Rosario PG. Gerst PH. Prakash K. Albu E. Dentureless distention: oat bran bezoars cause obstruction Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 38(5):608, 1990

Kux M. Fuchsjager N. Baraka A.
Food-induced ileus associated with intraperitoneal adhesions. (Original Title: Nahrungsmittelileus bei intraperitonealen Adhasionen.) Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 111(34):1277-80, 1986

Abstract

Six patients were treated for food ileus within a three-year period. In three patients an obstructing phytobezoar (made up of bran, sauerkraut and pumpkin in one case each) was removed at surgery from the small intestine. In three other patients ingestion of a grapefruit, bran and turnip led to an ileus, which lasted for 3-9 days but responded to conservative treatment after 3-9 days.

Ian "Usenet bezoar" York



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