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     Speaker Kurra Bewarse Username: Speaker Post Number: 3907 Registered: 04-2017 Posted From: 192.197.178.2 Rating: N/A |
Pits Pits are one of the few defects that are not just aesthetic — the hard centers of certain fruits can also cause mouth and tooth injuries. In one unusual medical case, reported in 1996 in the journal Endoscopy, a 40-year-old man in Bulgaria had a stomach problem called a "pyloric obstruction," which turned out to be due to an olive pit that had become stuck in his stomach. Pyloric obstruction occurs when the contents of the stomach are prevented from emptying into the small intestine. After the pit was surgically removed, the man told his doctors that he had swallowed a few olive pits on purpose, because of an ancient Bulgarian superstition that swallowing olive pits could cure ulcers. A few pits are allowed in pitted dates, olives and prunes, according to the FDA's handbook. Naa Maata, Nene Vinanu |