WHEN it comes to dumb ways to end up in hospital, this case out of the UK takes the cake.
Nathan Rimmington, a 33-year-old businessman from South Yorkshire, was rushed to hospital with intense stomach pain and dramatic swings in body temperature.
Tests revealed the patient's blood pressure was dangerously high, and that he had a large amount of gelatine in his system, prompting doctors to ask what he'd eaten recently.
Rimmington mentioned a Sunday roast, but only after further prompting did he mention the three kilograms of Haribo cola bottle gummies he had eaten a few days earlier.
He was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis - a condition that affects the large intestine, causing abdominal pain, high temperature and even rectal bleeding, and in rare cases, can lead serious complications such as bowel perforation.
Doctors treated Rimmington, who was kept in hospital for six days, by administering antibiotics and fluid intravenously through a drip.
"It was my own stupid fault and I haven't eaten a cola bottle since," he said.
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