Teenage bubble-tea drinker needs surgery after lumps form in colon

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Teenage bubble-tea drinker needs surgery after lumps form in colon
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A boy was forced to have surgery after he failed to digest the starchy balls which formed two hard lumps in his colon. 9News

A teenage boy who drank two cups of bubble tea was forced to have surgery after he failed to digest the starchy balls which formed two hard lumps in his colon.

The solid objects known as faecaliths – or stones made of faeces – measured two and three centimetres in size, according to a report from last Thursday by the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, in Henan Province in Central China. X-ray shows similar incident in 2019 where doctors found more than 100 undigested tapioca balls inside a girl's stomach.

Paediatric surgeon Zhang Haiyang, who treated the boy at the end of last year, said the boy's bowel obstruction was more than likely caused by his love for bubble tea.notoriously hard to digest"Around 3am while I was on call, a 13-year-old boy was brought in with sudden abdominal pain," Doctor Zhang said.An operation was scheduled the following day when his condition failed to improve.

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