fig causing small bowel obstruction

Old patients, especially those who have no teeth, swallow the bolus of food without proper mastication and these food materials might be large enough to cause obstruction of the small intestine. We report an old patient who developed intestinal obstruction because of improper mastication of figs marmalade. Laparotomy and enterotomy were done for him. What is more interesting is that; the patient developed signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction in the fourth post operative day after swallowing pieces of cucumber that was impacted at the site of enterotomy