The X-ray picture shows a spetula stuck in the woman's throat. [Photo/IC]

A woman who shoved a 30-centimeter spetula down her throat stunned doctors with her extraordinary act in Humen county, Dongguan city, Guangdong province, reported South Metropolis Daily on Wednesday.

After her condition stabilized, she explained how it happened. She said she felt great difficulty breathing, with a lump in her throat when she was cooking. She remembered a local saying that using something to unblock her throat would work.

At first, she used her fingers but they were too short to unblock her throat. Then she chose chopsticks to stick into her throat. After breaking three chopsticks that way, she turned to a spetula and put the handle right into her throat. She soon felt it was impossible to breathe and that's when she went to the hospital for help.

The strange case made the doctors wonder if the woman was suffering from mental illness. But, surprisingly, she appeared to be perfectly sane. Doctors had to cut 20 centimeters out of 25 centimeters of her esophagus since it was badly damaged.

To enable her to eat, the doctors had to stretch her stomach up to her throat to connect with the rest of the esophagus.

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