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Man warns not to sleep with AirPods in after swallowing one in his sleep

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

11:16 7 Feb 2021


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Taking eat, sleep and breathe music to another level; the AirPod swallower. 

A man from the US went to bed innocently listening to music on his Apple AirPods.

Somehow through the night, he managed to swallow one of them, and had to get it removed in hospital.

Brad Gauthier from Massachusetts claimed he had no idea where the earphone was when he woke up the next morning.

He spent an age digging through snow from his driveway to look for it, not knowing it was actually lodged in his throat.

After realising he couldn't swallow food or liquids, alarm bells starting ringing for the poor man.

It was his son that eventually pointed out he could have swallowed the AirPod that was missing.

"I felt a distinct blockage in the centre of my chest," Gauthier told a US news channel.

"My son and wife... brought it up jokingly at first, but it seemed too coincidental that I would be missing it when I knew I went to bed with it."

An X-Ray shows a faint image of the earbud that got stuck in Gauthier's throat.

Doctors were able to recover it using a long tube and thankfully all was well after that.

Gauthier felt nothing other than minor discomfort and felt "quite lucky" to walk out of hospital unscathed.

He later found the Apple AirPod worked perfectly after returning home.

Brad has appealed to others to be wary of sleeping with earbuds or earphones in after what happened to him.


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