Hot Mess!!Man Swallows a lighter while drunk as he tries to entertain his friends.

Wonders will never cease!!!A 23 year-old man in China had a lighter removed in a local hospital after he swallowed a lighter while entertaining his friends.

An X-ray picture shows the eight-centimetre-long lighter (circled) stuck in the man's stomach

The man had the 8 cm long (three-inch-long) device stuck inside him for nearly 30 hours after ingesting it to entertain his drinking mates, his father told reporters. 

A doctor called the patient ‘lucky’. He said if the lighter had not been extracted in time, it could potentially explode inside the patient’s belly. 

If the lighter had stayed inside the patient longer, there could be a chance that it would explode too, Shang added. 

The patient also faced the possibilities of bowel obstruction and ruptures in the bowels if the lighter had slid into his intestines.

Doctors in Shenyang, China, use a small snare to remove the lighter, helped by gastroscopy

Doctors removed the lighter from Li using a small snare helped by gastroscopy. They said the procedure would bring less impact on the patient compared to surgery.

By looking at images of Li’s stomach on the monitor, doctors used the snare to grab a hold of the lighter before gently pulling it out in a three-minute process.

Gastroscopy is an examination of the inside of the gullet, stomach and duodenum. It is performed using a flexible fibre-optic instrument called a gastroscope or endoscope, which can take photographs of the area and transmit them to a TV monitor.

The man is said to be in stable condition. 

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