A child's affection for persimmons led to a "woody" lump in his stomach

A child from Fujian Province, southeast China, found himself in hospital after eating four persimmons of persimmons, the "Global Times" newspaper reported on Saturday.

The newspaper said that excessive consumption of persimmons caused severe pain in the abdomen of a 5-year-old child, and an ultrasound of his stomach revealed that there was a solid mass resembling a wood block, 7 centimeters in length and 3 centimeters in width, and weighing 250 grams, formed from the remains of persimmons. From the interaction of the acids contained in the fruits with the proteins and fibers in the child's stomach.

The operation lasted nine hours, during which doctors were able to split the "woody" mass into small pieces and take it out of the child's stomach, which led to his recovery and leaving the hospital.

Source: Novosti