A woman went to the hospital complaining of stomach pain It turns out mushrooms she hadn't properly cooked or chewed had began growing in her stomach The mushrooms, which had grown to almost an inch, were removed piece by piece by surgeons
Make sure you chew your food...seriously. A 50-year-old woman went to a hospital in China complaining of stomach pain and discovered mushrooms she'd eaten had grown in her stomach.
It turns out if you don't cook and chew dehydrated mushrooms properly, they can expand once they come in to contact with stomach acid. Doctors discovered multiple fungi had become lodged in the woman's stomach, including a whole mushroom measuring almost an inch in length.
Surgeons removed the mushrooms piece by piece and the woman recovered and was discharged from the hospital.