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GRAPHIC IMAGE: Shock X-ray reveals what THIS popular drink did to young teen

Never. Drinking. It. Again. - by Amy Sinclair
  • 12 Jun 2019

The old message about enjoying things in moderation is something one Chinese teen is sure to adhere to in the future.

The girl, 14, was reportedly addicted to bubble tea.

GRAPHIC IMAGE: Shock X-ray reveals what THIS popular drink did to young teen

But her love of the popular milk drink, which is packed with tapioca balls, ended with her in hospital and hundreds of undigested black, chewy pearls lodged in her stomach.

The girl, known as Xiao Shen, had become bloated, was complaining about severe stomach pain, was struggling to eat and had not gone to the toilet in days.

She was taken to the emergency department where, according to local media reports, CT scans revealed more than 100 “shadows” throughout her digestive tract.

The sheepish teen told her doctors she had drunk pearl milk five days earlier, but specialists concluded that so many undigested pearls would have been “caused by drinking for a while”.

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Hundreds of the tapioca balls found in bubble tea were found lodged in the girl's stomach, as the x-ray at top of page shows.

Image: Getty

The pearls in the drink are made of a tapioca starch, “which is not easy to digest”.

Xiao was prescribed a laxative to rid her body of the undigested pearls and told to drink less of her favourite beverage.

This story first appeared on Perth Now - click here for more.

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