Is it just us? Or are stories these days just getting stranger and stranger?
A Chinese woman has landed herself in hospital after injecting herself with the juice of 20 different fruits via a homemade IV drip, causing her organs to begin shutting down.
Zeng, 51, began to feel her temperature rise after injecting the fruit juices, she also felt itchy all over but didn’t do anything about it.
It was only when her husband asked her what was wrong because she didn’t look very well that Zeng was taken to hospital in Guiyang, China.
She was then transferred to an intensive care unit after her condition deteriorated on February 22. Doctor Liu Jianxiu told local media that she had contracted an infection and caused damage to her heart, kidney and liver.
She was left fighting for her life after developing sepsis and when her organs started failing. Doctors carried out dialysis to clear her blood of fruit juice and she was given antibiotics.
Her condition improved after five days and the woman said she thought fruits were ‘very nutritious and it would not do me harm by injecting them into my body’.
The case gave birth to a trending hashtag called #OldWomanPutsJuiceIntoVeins.
