When you’re celebrating your birthday, it’s completely normal to
get a little crazy. But you have to feel sorry for Gaby Scanlon,
a British teenager, who ended her 18th birthday night with an
emergency operation to remove her stomach. What? It’s because
she drank a cocktail that contained liquid nitrogen. As most
people know, liquid nitrogen is so cold it burns. If ingested,
it can cause severe internal damage. But a few bars use liquid
nitrogen in their cocktails to flash-freeze drinks and/or add a
cloud of vapour around the glass. It’s cool, but not so cool
when it puts you in hospital. According to The Guardian, Gaby
Scanlon began to feel sick during the night of her birthday
after drinking a Jagermeister drink made with liquid nitrogen,
“becoming breathless and developing severe stomach pain”. Gaby
was diagnosed with a “perforated stomach” and the police said
her condition actually could have been fatal if the doctors
didn’t operate immediately. Removing her stomach saved her life.
But, uh, how does a per