7 strange things found in people's stomachs [Updated]

From entire cutlery sets to massive hairballs, doctors have discovered some awfully bizarre items in the bellies of their patients

A CT scan of a 76-year-old woman's stomach shows the outline of a pen that was lodged there for 25 years.
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Kids often get an upset stomach when they eat something they shouldn't. But for an 8-month-old baby girl named Aunraya, the consequences were nearly deadly, says ABC News. The baby recently ate what her great grandmother and guardian, Freida Deweese, thought was "a piece of candy," and wound up in emergency surgery at Texas Children's Hospital. That's because the child hadn't eaten sweets — she had swallowed a Water Balz toy, which begins around the size of a marble and grows to up to 400 times its original size when placed in water. Here, a dangerously expanding toy and six other strange objects found in the stomachs of patients across the globe:

1. A perilously growing toy

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