Celia Trello started throwing up blood after snacking on some pork rinds and surgeons had to carry out a ‘careful dissection’ after discovering she’d swallowed a metal nail
A South American woman became violently ill after eating a bag of pork rinds when an object became lodged in her throat, causing her to vomit blood.
Celia Trello, from Peru, was rushed to the hospital after she felt something sharp hit her throat while she was eating a bag of pork rinds in February. To begin with, she thought it was just a bone, but she soon fell gravely ill.
The 68-year-old woman began vomiting blood and was taken to the emergency ward when doctors discovered a nefarious object in a dangerous location. Doctors soon discovered it was a metal nail that Ceila had consumed, and it was piercing one of her carotid arteries, which help supply oxygen and blood to the brain.
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Speaking to ABS-CBN News from a hospital, Celia said: “I felt ill and I came here because I thought I had a bone in my throat, it never crossed my mind I had this nail or piece of wire.”
Surgeon Diego Cuipal explained how his team of surgeons worked carefully to save Celia’s life. He said: “We discovered the metallic object, the nail, was piercing the artery by carrying out a careful dissection due to the risk of detaching a clot that could reach the brain.
“We were able to isolate the affected area and we repaired it by sectioning it and we joined a healthy artery with another healthy artery.”.
The Cleveland Clinic said the blood vessel Celia had pierced is “a vital part of your circulatory system.” There is a carotid artery on each side of your neck, each splitting into two branches to help supply blood to your head and neck.
Her X-ray images showed the nail protruding into her throat. However, Celia has now fully recovered. Objects have previously made their way into food, with one man, Anek, finding a fingernail in his Burger King meal in 2018, accidentally eating it.
“It was crunchy man,” Anek said to FOX 8. “I threw up three times.” A year later, a Massachusetts Chipotle customer allegedly bit into a nail in his burrito and chipped his tooth.
The FDA has previously warned that some food contamination is expected, saying that it’s “economically impractical” to avoid some “non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects.”
In September, more than 15,000lbs of smoked sausage was recalled after they were found to be potentially contaminated with bone fragments.
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The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made the announcement on Saturday, September 2. They said the Hillshire Brands Company is “recalling approximately 15,876 pounds of blended meat and poultry smoked sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically bone fragments.”
The ready-to-eat smoked sausages were produced on June 14, 2023, and have establishment number EST. 756A printed on the front of the package. The products in question were shipped to stores in California, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The contamination was first discovered when the company notified FSIS that it had received customer complaints of bone fragments in its products. The FSIS also received a direct customer complaint regarding this issue.
