Kolkata Doctor Removes Nose Pin Screw From Woman’s Lung: ”Extremely Rare Case”

A team of doctors in Kolkata successfully removed the screw of a gold nose pin from a woman’s right lung after she accidentally inhaled it. At first, 35-year-old Varsha Sahuwasn’t too concerned after inhaling a part of the nose pin that she had been wearing since her wedding 16 or 17 years ago, BBC reported. She thought the pin had gone into her stomach and would naturally pass through her digestive system.

However, things took a turn for the worse when she started facing health issues, including shortness of breath. A month after inhaling the screw, she went to a doctor complaining of a persistent cough, and pneumonia. She was first prescribed medicines which didn’t work.

She then consulted a pulmonologist, who conducted a CT scan and a chest X-ray. These tests revealed a small object lodged in her lung, later identified as the screw from her nose pin.

“I didn’t know that the screw had come loose. I was just chatting and I took a deep breath and I inhaled it. I had no idea it went into my airway. I thought it had gone into my stomach,” Ms Sahutold the BBC.