Including, but not limited to, food
In the "grossest abstract I've read this week" category:
Coprophagic café coronary.
Byard RW.
Forensic Science Centre, Adelaide, Australia. byardr01@forensic.sa.gov.au
A 74-year-old man who had been institutionalized for severe multiinfarct dementia was found dead in bed. He had a history of compulsive ingestion of food and other materials, including feces. At autopsy, a 65-g bolus of fecal material was impacted within the laryngopharynx, occluding the inlet of the larynx. This case demonstrates an unusual coprophagic variant of cafe coronary syndrome and emphasizes that demented individuals with pica are at risk of sudden death from ingestion of a wide variety of materials, including, but not limited to, food.
Publication Types:
PMID: 11444673 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Coprophagic café coronary.
Byard RW.
Forensic Science Centre, Adelaide, Australia. byardr01@forensic.sa.gov.au
A 74-year-old man who had been institutionalized for severe multiinfarct dementia was found dead in bed. He had a history of compulsive ingestion of food and other materials, including feces. At autopsy, a 65-g bolus of fecal material was impacted within the laryngopharynx, occluding the inlet of the larynx. This case demonstrates an unusual coprophagic variant of cafe coronary syndrome and emphasizes that demented individuals with pica are at risk of sudden death from ingestion of a wide variety of materials, including, but not limited to, food.
Publication Types:
- Case Reports
PMID: 11444673 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
posted by Jason at 4:52 PM
2 Comments:
My baby does that eating poop thing. He has not choked on them. I simply pretend that I have not seen what is going on when he does that.
Well, I guess the fact that your hamster knows enough to chew his poop before swallowing could be considered evidence that his cognitive status is within normal limits.
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