Man Loses His Teeth After Eating a Tampon

Paris| Louis Vaudreuil, a 34 years old radio host from a Paris suburb, will forever have to live with dramatic consequences of a lost bet that forced him to chew and swallow a vaginal tampon, causing all his teeth to fall within two days.

“It was supposed to be funny” says the poor man with lots of difficulty. “I made a bet over a rugby game with a friend, that implied that the loser would have to eat a tampon… We had no idea it could be so dangerous!” Medical professionals who had to treat the victim, describe the gesture as stupid and reckless. “Mr Vaudreuil should consider himself lucky not to be dead!” explains Dr. Marc Langevin, the traumatologist who treated him after the incident. “Eating a tampon is like eating 5000 cigarets in terms of ingested chemicals… it’s almost suicidal.” Like most tampons, the one the victim ingested contained large quantities of nicotine, cyanide, arsenic and lead, all of which can kill if ingested in sufficient quantities.