When a person is hungry, what is a too-tempting food? This study, in addition to reporting a medical incident, begins to try to answer that question:
“Each Worm to His Taste: Some Prefer to Eat Nettles – A Giant Gastric Phytobezoar,” Mahir Gachabayov, Abakar Abdullaev, Petr Mityushin, and Timur Gilyazov, Clinical Case Reports, vol. 4, no. 7, 2016, article 710. The authors report:
“Nettle consumption, as well as persimmon, orange, coconut etc. can lead to phytobezoar formation. Coke and cellulase-resistant phytobezoars should be removed either endoscopically or surgically, depending on their dimensions. The treatment of choice for giant phytobezoars (more than 10 cm) is gastrotomy.”