A small bag of marijuana was retrieved from the nose men 18 years after he put it there to «bring» smuggled into the prison. According to doctors, this is the first case of its kind.
According to the team of doctors who reported the case in the British Medical Journal, the man received marijuana from his girlfriend, who visited him in prison.
He put the drugs in the right nostril, but later could not retrieve the bag.
Despite the fact that within a few years after the incident the prisoner has suffered from chronic sinus infections and symptoms of nasal congestion, a man mistakenly believed that he swallowed drugs.
For 18 years, the packaging became Renolit — stone that is formed around a foreign body in the nasal cavity by slow sedimentation of salts of calcium and magnesium.
In the report of the doctors Westmead Hospital in Sydney (Australia), said that the man learned the truth about his «sinus pain», only to seek medical help due to the fact that, in his opinion, there was absolutely nothing to do with that incident.
Renolit removed from the nose of the man under General anesthesia, and subsequent research has shown that it contains «rubber capsule with vegetable substances.» Then the man remembered about marijuana, he gave the girl when he was in prison.
Three months after the unexpected removal of foreign body, the patient noted that the discomfort in my nose completely disappeared.
Researchers believe that this is the first reported case of «rhinolite on the basis of marijuana». They noted that most of the smuggling of drugs into prisons is by swallowing the bags.
Reality are diagnosed relatively rarely – one case per 10 000 visits Laura.
