Carli Bellmer, 27, was left horrified after she accidentally swallowed her AirPod instead of ibuprofen – and it began playing a voice note from inside her stomach Woman accidentally swallows AirPod instead of ibuprofen in viral TikTok
A 27-year-old woman was horrified to discover she had gulped down an AirPod rather than the ibuprofen she intended to take.
After she had swallowed the Apple earphone she was horrified when it played a voice message to her friend from her stomach.
Carli Bellmer, shared on TikTok she had made the dreadful blunder, before the AirPod travelled completely through her digestive tract.
Despite some claiming the footage was merely an attention-seeking stunt, an X-ray appeared to validate her claims.
Known on TikTok as @IamCarliiib, the woman told her followers that, disturbingly, the earpiece kept playing a voice memo she dispatched to her friend while lodged in her stomach, reports the Mirror US.
She told her 3,200 followers: “So like, I ate my f***ing left AirPod. I was crawling into bed and I had an ibuprofen 800 in one hand and my f***ing AirPod – my left earbud – in the other.”
The Boston-based podcaster revealed that she swallowed what she thought was the tablet with water.
She explained: “I then realised that it wasn’t the ibuprofen,” she said. “I tired puking it and it won’t come out, and I’m f***ing losing my mind.”
The footage amassed more than 2.4 million views on TikTok.
Carli said she felt compelled to share her peculiar tale as she wasn’t the first person this has occurred to.
“So for educational purposes, I wanted to share my journey of how this is all going,” she said. Numerous people sent Carli their best wishes for a speedy recovery, though others made their scepticism abundantly clear. One commented: “How do you mix up ibuprofen and an AirPod?”
Another dismissed her account as attention-seeking, declaring “Sound like c*** to me.” However, some rushed to her defence, with one person pointing out: “In her defence, Ibuprofen 800 are huge so they do sorta resemble an AirPod if you’re distracted.”
In subsequent posts, Carli revealed she could actually hear the AirPod playing her voice message while it remained connected to her iPhone. “It’s comical now, but very scary at the time,” she admitted.
The TikToker confirmed that an X-ray had shown the AirPod had travelled through her digestive system. She explained: “An X-ray showed that I passed it. I had a feeling that I passed it. I did not retrieve it, but I know that it’s passed. I know that it was in my stomach and no longer is.”
Worryingly, Carli isn’t the first person to accidentally consume an AirPod. Back in 2021, a Massachusetts bloke woke up struggling to breathe after swallowing his AirPod while asleep.
Medics carried out an emergency endoscopy, employing a lengthy, slender tube to remove it from his gullet. Brad Gauthier made a complete recovery – though the AirPod didn’t fare so well, according to the Independent.
Last January, a seven year old lad from Georgia was rushed to A&E after swallowing an AirPod he’d been holding in his mouth, and had to wait for it to pass naturally once it reached his tummy. In 2019, a bloke in Taiwan went through a comparable ordeal, though his AirPod astonishingly continued functioning after travelling through his system.
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