A woman had to have an operation to remove mushrooms from her stomach.

Woman in bed

Woman in bed

The fungi had started growing inside her and had become lodged in the woman's gut - with some having sprouted to 7cms long, according to reports by The Mirror newspaper.

Doctors ruled that the mushrooms had become stuck in her tummy after she claimed to have cooked dry mushrooms without soaking them and subsequently didn't chew them properly either.

She was taken to hospital suffering from stomach ache and medics discovered the mushrooms had expanded and got stuck.

The woman underwent surgery to remove the mushrooms.