Nested Bullets in the Brain During 82 Years Without Feel Pain

News Health Articles - Nested Bullets in the Brain During 82 Years Without Feel Pain. Foreign bodies that enter the body usually always cause pain, but this should not happen to a man from Russia. A bullet had lodged in his brain for 82 years. Surprisingly, the bullet did not cause adverse effects and pain.

A bullet had been settled at the head of a Russian man who accidentally shot to the head when he was 3 years old. The bullet remains lodged for more than 80 years, even longer than his teeth, without causing any adverse effects.



The unnamed man was never even an award winning engineer and won the Soviet State Prize for his accomplishments he was doing. The man known to have spent most of his career to oversee the construction of a ballistic missile.

At the age of 3 years, he never shot with a pistol by his brother. The bullet entered under his nose and never issued, which finally settled at the foramen magnum, the opening (sort of a hole) at the base of the skull through which the spinal cord.

The man was unconscious for hours, but after that condition recovered in total.

At that time doctors did not remove the bullet for fear of causing more damage, according to a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported by Dailymail, Friday (12/30/2011).

"The body has a remarkable ability to 'get away'. Also, the kids have a great ability of the body to overcome difficulties and rebuild when injured," said Dr. Richard O'Brien, spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.

82 years later, he suffered from coronary heart disease and cardiology doctors at the center of Russia who cared to see the bullet was still there when the examination of X-ray scans.

The doctor was surprised because bullets leave no signs of nerve damage during the 82-year-lodged in his head. There was only a scar under noise.

"High-speed bullet usually can cause great damage. But because of the high-speed, bullet it produces lots of heat. The heat causes the bullet sterile, which means it is unlikely to cause infection if it stays in one place for years," said Dr. David Ross, an emergency physician at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs.

Doctors at the center of cardiology Russia decided not to remove the bullet, because according to them there is no point in taking the bullet out.