The Daily Mail reports doctors removed the objects in surgery and thought that the teen may be suffering from pica, a disease that causes the person to ingest foreign objects. The teen revealed that he had been eating nails for around a month with his parents not understanding why he chose to do that.
This isn’t the first time someone has eaten nails in China, according to The Daily Mail. According to the site, a man swallowed eight nails in May during a drunken bet with friends to prove that he was a “sword swallower.”
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