Surgery for Indian woman who inhaled nose pin - BBC News

A doctor who removed the pin from Varsha Sahu's lung last month described it as an "extremely rare" case.

8 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, The forceps used to pull out the screw of the nose pinBy Geeta PandeyBBC News, DelhiWhen Varsha Sahu accidentally inhaled the screw of her nose pin two months ago, she wasn't too concerned.

She thought the pin had gone into her stomach and would naturally pass through her digestive system.

But the metal object got lodged in her lung and caused her weeks of discomfort and shortness of breath until finally it was removed by doctors.

Like most married Hindu women in India, 35-year-old Varsha had been wearing a nose pin since her wedding "16-17 years back" as it's considered a symbol of marital status.

"I didn't know that the screw had come loose," she told the BBC on the phone from her home in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-68894844

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