[A case of attempted suicide with an enormous quantity of food]

Presented is a suicide attempt with an enormous amount of food in a young female affected with Anorexia mentalis of symptomatic alcoholism. Reacting to a conflict situation with her boyfriend, in a fit of anxiety and depression on a principal of a "short circuit reaction" she took an uncontrollably large amount of food. After an attempt of gastric lavage which was unsuccessful, a laparotomy and gastrotomy was carried out because of vital reasons. Eight kilograms of various types of undigested food and mushy contents were removed from the stomach. The surgical treatment lasted for 26 days, and treatment was resumed at the department for neuropsychiatry and the patient was released to go home as recovered after 84 days of treatment. The authors have presented this case as a very rare suicide attempt, because they have not found a description of a suicide attempt with food in domestic nor available world literature.