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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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.
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