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Food issue
Today I ate food in my hostel mess. They gave some curry. While I finished my eating one of the vegetables which I ate appeared to be like blood sucking leech. I swallowed it. Now I am in great tension. Can leech survive in human intestine.? Can it multiply there? What should I do?
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Ms. Juhi Parashar
Psychologist
11 yrs exp
Gurgaon
Don't worry
Stomach acid. will kill the leech even if the you swallowed it whole, further assuming the leech was not killed by peristalsis on its way down to the stomach.
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