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A man who attempted to smuggle cannabis into prison by hiding it in a balloon up his nose has retrieved the drugs more than 18 years later, after mistakenly believing he had swallowed the package.<\/p>\n
His doctors reported on the \u201cunique case\u201d in a paper published in the British Medical Journal under the heading of \u201ca nose out of joint\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the lead author Dr. Murray Smith of Westmead Hospital in Australia, the patient was first given the cannabis inside a rubber balloon when his girlfriend visited him in prison.<\/p>\n
The man inserted the package into his right nostril to hide it from the prison guards and smuggle it into the facility.<\/p>\n
However he was unable to retrieve it once he slipped past them, and eventually mistakenly believed that he had accidentally swallowed it.<\/p>\n
Over the next two decades, the balloon developed into a rhinolith, a stone in the nasal cavity formed as calcium and magnesium salts slowly built up around the rubber.<\/p>\n
This caused the patient regular sinus infections and frequent complaints about nasal obstructions, but it wasn\u2019t until these developed into painful headaches that he sought treatment.<\/p>\n
Investigating the mysterious cause of the man\u2019s headaches, his doctors performed a CT scan and discovered a \u201crubber capsule containing degenerate vegetable\/plant matter\u201d which was then surgically removed.<\/p>\n
Three months after the surgery, the patient reported that all of his symptoms had disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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