Yes, tiny shards of glass are dangerous if you swallow them. They will never dissolve in your stomach. If these tiny shards are sharp enough they can cut or injure your inner organs.
They are also dangerous when they embed under your skin. The coin passes through the digestive system and is expelled within a day or two. In most cases, items swallowed by children can be removed with an endoscopic procedure. Foreign bodies can be removed by endoscopy or by laparotomy. We present the two cases of laparoscopic removal of large sharp foreign bodies from the stomach.
Laparoscopic removal of large sharp foreign bodies from the stomach is safe. Intestinal obstructions can be caused by something inside the GI tract blocking the intestine or by something outside the GI tract pressing on the intestine and causing it to collapse.
A bowel obstruction causes physical symptoms, including: Nausea and vomiting. Severe pain in your abdomen belly. If it was swallowed, you may undergo a direct examination of your throat and esophagus or an x-ray examination. Inhalation of gemstone dust can cause a range of respiratory issues such as silicosis.
The modern physicians mentioned in The New Monthly Magazine in apparently did show that there is a slow but inevitable death in grinding stones and metal without ventilation, but this referred to respiratory diseases rather than gastrointestinal conditions.
However, co-administration with quartz caused many more lesions. Even today, additional confusion arises as diamond mine workers in South Africa seem to be at risk of developing asbestos-related diseases since diamond and asbestos deposits are located close to each other. Perhaps cynical, maybe the myth of diamond toxicity was an idea promoted to discourage the theft of this valuable jewel. This would have been useful to the elite diamond owning communities of antiquity as well the mining corporations of today.
There is a suggestion that the rumour of swallowing diamonds as being poisonous is perpetuated in diamond mines to deter the theft of uncut stones. Of course, the value of diamonds make them an attractive prospect for smuggling and occasionally we see news reports of such cases or even accidental swallowing of engagement rings hidden in champagne flutes during wedding proposals and so forth:.
Smuggler caught in South Africa after swallowing diamonds YouTube. How one woman accidentally swallowed her engagement ring BBC. So is diamond ingestion harmful at all? Consider this relatively modern source regarding the ingestion of foreign objects:. The spectrum of gastrointestinal GI foreign bodies includes food bolus impaction in the esophagus, nonfood objects that are swallowed, and various objects that may be inserted into the rectum.
The risk depends upon the type of object and its location. All objects impacted in the esophagus require urgent or emergent treatment. The odds seem to generally be favourable, although the consequences of being unlucky could be catastrophic. Elsewhere, the information specifically on diamonds is light. There are two very similar entries I found. The first is from a toxicology module from Khalsa College, Delhi, India:.
Powdered glass, diamond powder, needles, etc. The second is from an excellent post by Freitas that references Hutchkinson, who apparently is writing informally:.
Every other poison has a principle behind its action — cyanides attack, alkaloids destroy, barbiturates deaden, glycosides deteriorate, ricin and abrin phytotoxins agglutinate. This goes on from anywhere between months, until the victim is dead.
The pain accompanying this can only be imagined by the few. A large amount of diamond dust would probably feel similar to having a Portuguese Man-O-War living inside of you. Even in its earliest stages, the difficulties behind diagnosis can well be imagined. The only way to extricate the tiny diamond splinters is surgery, wherein each particle would have to be located and removed individually, an impossible feat.
Hutchkinson also touches on the difficulty of diagnosis but Freitas is keen to note that diamond would be visible radiologically. I know it must be getting a little repetitive sorry but again, this issue is also more or perhaps less opaque that it may seem. It is often said that an x-ray can differentiate a real from a fake diamond. There is an urban myth that a female radiographer accidently had her hand imaged while immobilising a patient only to find her supposed diamond engagement ring was actually fake due to the lucency of the stone.
In a very insightful article by Piotto, Gent and Bibbo note this myth and outline the history of diamonds and radiology. I imagine diamond dust embedded within the alimentary tract must be exceptionally challenging to spot on radiographic imaging.
If you have any experience of this, please let me know. A diamond, unlike cubic zirconia, is radiolucent. Diamonds appear radiolucent because they are composed of carbon which attenuates the x-ray beam to a lesser degree than high anatomic number elements such as lead or Zirconium.
Medicine seems to be finally outpacing the shadow of the Renaissance; the idea of diamond being beneficial to health is coming back into fashion. Diamond as a medical material is considered bioinert , neither causing coagulation nor producing a significant immune or inflammatory response making it a future prospect for the very thin coating of bodily implants such as arterial stents. Nanodiamonds show potential as drug delivery vehicles. However, although cells apparently take up nanodiamond without obvious toxicity, their clearance if any has not yet been demonstrated.
They are embedded within many different cultures and questions about their real effect on health remain strangely pertinent to some even today. The Renaissance and a possible exchange or rediscovery of ideas around this time is particularly notable as perpetuating contradictory thoughts about the property of diamonds in relation to health.
Inexorably linked with wealth, they are unreliably cited in the deaths of a number of prominent individuals throughout history. Jon Arnold said the ring went through the "natural digestive process" before seeing the light of day, the Associated Press reported.
The popularity of diamond-eating suggests internal organs are an optimal hiding place for stolen hardware. But what happens to your innards when you swallow a diamond? As one of the hardest materials on Earth, there's little risk of diamonds decomposing inside your body, but can they hurt you in some other way?
However, a person may die if he swallows a diamond because a diamond is tough and has sharp edges, and can cut some part of the intestine in the stomach. Since diamond is the hardest stone, breaking it is not easy. If you lick a diamond, nothing will happen as no poison is coated on it, nor is it made from Potassium Cyanide. Diamonds are of different colors, such as pink, white, champagne, pink champagne, yellow, blue, and green.
The pink diamond is by far the weakest and most precious diamond and goes beyond the white diamond's beauty. However, less than one-tenth of a percent of all diamonds are classified as roses. Argyle pink diamonds are available in various shades, from gentle pastel pink to red and purple-red. This differentiates them from diamonds from India, Brazil, and Africa, which are lighter. The price of pink diamond Argyle depends on the intensity of the color. Unlike pink diamonds, white diamonds are produced all over the world and are available in various shapes and sizes.
White Argyle Minerals have better quality. The white diamond shows the pink stripes on the upper side. Their depth and strength determine their high prices.
Another type is the Champagne Diamond. They come in light straw colors to rich cognac. Usually, the color intensity carries more importance in color estimation. Pink diamonds of champagne are more expensive than diamonds of champagne. Yellow diamonds range from pale yellow to rich canary colors, and blue diamonds range from light blue to steel and metal.
The green diamond, in which the color penetration is not very deep, is removed by modeling the stone. Diamonds are carbon. Colorless diamonds are usually pure carbon, but diamonds of various exotic shades are the color of small impurities in the stone structure.
Graphite, "lead" pencils, is also pure carbon. The only difference between lead and diamond is the way the molecules meet. Graphite is a soft carbon form that easily converges to paper, while diamond is the most intricate known natural substance. The narrow cubic molecular structure of the diamond makes it difficult.
It was created in almost unimaginable temperature and pressure conditions, deep underground and shaped at a depth of 90 to miles or more. The pressure is about 45 to 60 kilobar at these depths. However, the temperature at which diamonds are formed is considered relatively small given this great depth—about to degrees Fahrenheit.
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