10 Bizarre Medical Cases From 2015

Here are 10 bizarre medical cases from 2015.

Here are 10 bizarre worldwide medical cases from 2015.

Number 10. Licorice overdose. After a week of testing a boy in Italy who had been experiencing convulsive seizures, doctors noticed a brown tinge on his teeth. Turns out he’d been eating 20 licorice toffees every day for 4 months, and the sweetener in them caused his cortisol levels and blood pressure to spike. 

Number 9. Iced tea induced kidney failure. An Arkansas man’s 16-glass-a-day habit resulted in too much oxalate being introduced to his body. The substance, which is found in black tea, nuts, and even spinach, can trigger a variety of kidney-related issues.

Number 8. Nail in the eye. Luckily for the landscaper who ended up in the predicament, the discomfort was the worst part of the ordeal. He managed to emerge with his sight, brain, and important arteries completely unaffected.

Number 7. Accidental spoon swallowing. While eating ice cream, a student was startled by a friend and down went the utensil. Initially, she didn’t seek medical attention, but after an Internet search revealed all of the horrible fates potentially awaiting her, she had the spoon removed.

Number 6. Brain-eating amoeba. A California woman died of a heart attack after being flown to a medical center in Reno, Nevada. Her cause of death was narrowed down to the single-celled Naegleria fowleri, which enters through the nose and ultimately destroys brain tissue. 

Number 5. It’s March 14th, 2005. That is what a man studied in Leicester, England believes every single day he wakes up. As if the situation were not terrible enough, he always thinks he has a dentist appointment he needs to get to, as he was at one when his brain switched into auto repeat. 

Number 4. Kazakhstan’s sleeping sickness. For a while, dozens of people in two of the Asian nation’s small towns were suddenly becoming unconscious, sometimes staying that way for days. Carbon monoxide is believed to be the cause.

Number 3. Baby born with only a partial brain celebrated his first birthday. Remarkable, as at the time of the child’s birth his parents were told the outlook was exceedingly grim. His condition, known as anencephaly, is one that often claims young lives within hours. 

Number 2. Electronics allergy disability. A 39-year-old woman in France who had to move into a remote barn with no power was approved for about $900 a month in disability pay for up to three years. The condition is officially called electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, where people report mild to sometimes debilitating sensitivity when exposed to electromagnetic fields such as those given off by wi-fi networks, cell phones, and fluorescent lights.

Number 1. Sudoku-induced seizures. A study described the case of a 25-year-old German man who had seizures when he tried to solve the number puzzles. His problems began in 2008 when he was buried by an avalanche while skiing. It was determined that his brain went