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According to a case report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, announced in August, yet another person has swallowed whole a standard-size toothbrush. (A 15-year-old girl, running with the toothbrush in her mouth, tripped and fell, and her gag reflex did the rest.):blink:

 

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People swallow swords, So its very possible. Besides these are only reports herd about think of the ones not reported.

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So true. I guess I've never thought about that...

I have to swallow an endoscope camera every two years which I do quite easily. Getting something like a toothbrush as far as the stomach would not be a problem as it is a fairly straight run. Sword swallowers use this feature. However getting a toothbrush through the small intenstine might be a real problem as it is long, thin and quite convoluted.

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