AN Aussie Rules footballer from Adelaide rushed to hospital after swallowing a bottle cap from a beer-filled premiership cup has had his case reported in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal.
The unnamed 24 year-old Adelaide man inadvertently gulped down the serrated West End beer cap after downing the beer in the bottom of the cup on September 15.
"He felt something in his throat and it was a beer bottle cap in his chest, stuck in his oesophagus," Royal Adelaide Hospital's Dr Robert Douglas said.
Tests showed the man's blood-alcohol concentration was almost 0.11. The bottle cap obstructed his breathing, before moving into his chest.
Doctors removed it using an endoscope, a flexible tube with a camera and retrieval instrument attached.
"This is the first one of these I've seen (personally), but we see stupid stuff all the time – it always involves young blokes, beer, girls and sport," Dr Douglas said.
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