Woman nearly dies after injecting fruit smoothie into her veins

March 20, 2019  20:27

A woman known only as Zeng, from the Hunan province in the south of China, blended a smoothie of 20 different kinds of fruit and chucked the mixture into an intravenous drip.

According to South China Morning Post, the 51-year-old was into 'unconventional health treatments', and this seems to be one of the more unusual ones she decided to follow.

While she didn't immediately suffer any adverse reactions, it didn't take long for her arm to get itchy and she also developed a fever. Feng tried to keep it a secret but her husband could see that she was in distress and eventually convinced her to go to hospital.

Once she was admitted, doctors were shocked at her condition.

Doctor Liu Jianxiu told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald that she had developed an infection in her liver, kidney and heart and was at risk of multiple organ failure.

Thankfully the team at the hospital nursed the 51-year-old back to health after putting her on dialysis, and giving her antibiotics and anti-clotting medicine.

Zeng said: "I had thought fresh fruits were very nutritious and it would not do me harm by injecting them into my body.

"I had no idea that would get me into such trouble."

Source: ladbible.com

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