Doctors Find 55 Batteries In Woman’s Body — ‘Highest Reported Number’ Ever

The recovered batteries included both AA and AAA varieties. (Photo: Irish Medical Journal)The recovered batteries included both AA and AAA varieties. (Photo: Irish Medical Journal)The terms “emergency” and “AAA” typically connote a roadside incident. Certain doctors in Dublin, however, are unlikely to ever associate those terms with anything but a recent surgery — during which they found dozens of batteries in a 66-year-old woman’s colon and stomach.A report of the incident, published Thursday in the Irish Medical Journal, detailed the patient’s arrival at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, where an X-ray revealed the foreign objects in her body. Miraculously, none were obstructing her gastrointestinal tract, according to Live Science.Doctors initially decided to wait in hopes that she would pass the batteries out of her body naturally. Though she released five AA…

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