Dr. Horovitz says that the lung’s warmth and moisture made the perfect pea habitat and suspects a pea seed went down the wrong way. He told<\/a> AOL Health:<\/p> “That can definitely happen. This did not surprise me…. You can inhale a seed of a plant or sprouting plant and it can cause bronchial obstruction. I’ve pulled food out of people’s lungs before.”<\/p><\/blockquote> Still, given the popularity of this story, we’re guessing lung gardening is pretty rare. As Sveden says in the ABC News video<\/a> above, he’s not sure how big a lung-born pea plant can grow:<\/p> “Whether this would have gone full-term and I’d be working for the Jolly Green Giant, I don’t know.”<\/p><\/blockquote> Related content: s Vagina<\/a> Doctors recently found a surprising growth in Ron Sveden’s lung: a pea plant.Sveden, a 75-year-old man from Massachusetts reportedly suffered from emphysema for months. He worried when he met with New York City pulmonologist Len Horovitz that he might have … Continue reading
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