Man eats 120 santol seeds, lands in hospital

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol—A 51-year-old man landed in a hospital after eating 120 seeds of santol (cotton fruit), a delicious yellow-orange fruit Filipinos love to eat.

Bienvenido Fernandez, a resident of Barangay Putlongcam in Alicia town, at least 103 km from the capital city of Tagbilaran, binged on santol last Tuesday night.

In an interview over dyTR in Tagbilaran, Fernandez said he ate about 30 pieces of the fruit, which had four seeds each. Instead of spitting out the seeds after gnawing its sweet and sour flesh, he swallowed all 120 of these.

The following day, Fernandez was brought to the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital in Tagbilaran City after he complained of stomachache.

The physicians conducted an ultrasound on his stomach and decided to conduct a surgery if he would not be able to flush out the seeds on his own.

A hospital clerk told Inquirer that Fernandez was able to defecate the seeds one after the other by Friday night.