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		<title>Sandwich Caused Woman to Faint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is strange: a woman in Birmingham, England, is hospitalized because she faints whenever she eats a sandwich! The woman, 25, was seen in hospital complaining of short 10-second episodes of feeling &#34;light-headed, occasionally nauseous, and suddenly and alarmingly unwell&#34;. On more than one occasion she had collapsed. The problem had started when she [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2009-01/sandwich.jpg" width="150" height="146" class="imageleft">This one is strange: a woman in Birmingham, England, is hospitalized because she faints whenever she eats a sandwich!</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The woman, 25, was seen in hospital complaining of short 10-second episodes of feeling &quot;light-headed, occasionally nauseous, and suddenly and alarmingly unwell&quot;.</em></p>
<p><em>On more than one occasion she had collapsed. The problem had started when she was aged 15, sometimes recurring several times a week. [...] The episodes tended to occur when the woman consumed certain types of food, particularly sandwiches and fizzy drinks.</em></p>
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<p>Turns out, her condition is called &quot;swallow syncope,&quot; a rare medical condition where swallowing triggers the nerve reflexes that cause the heart to stop temporarily: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3849158/Sandwiches-cause-woman-to-faint.html">Link</a> &#8211; via <a href="http://seehere.blogspot.com/">Look At This</a></p>
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