A man who had a live eel stuffed up his rear suffered excruciating pain as the sea monster tried to bite its way out of his digestive tract with its sharp teeth.
Shocked doctors in Vietnam discovered the 66-centimeter-long eel in X-rays taken on July 27 to diagnose the cause of its pain, local media reported. reports.
They discovered that the eel had tried to gnaw its way out by biting through the wall of its large intestine.
However, attempts to remove the fish using a tube through its anus failed when doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi found a blocked lemon.
Surgeons had to cut into its abdomen with forceps to remove the eel. The images of the animal on the operating table were heartbreaking.
Grim footage shows surgeons removing the eel from the man’s body at a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam
The 26-inch creature lies on the operating table, next to a lemon that was also reportedly removed from the man’s anus
Doctors pushed the lemon back into the patient’s anus until it popped out. They then stitched up the hole in his intestine and cleaned out the leaked feces.
According to doctors, he would have died without treatment and will have to live with a stoma for the rest of his life.
Hospital officials have not released the patient’s name, which only describes him as a 31-year-old man of Indian nationality.
The deputy director of the hospital’s Colon and Rectal Surgery Center, Dr. Le Nhat Huy, said they had performed many operations to remove foreign bodies from patients’ anuses.
He told local media that they had taken everything from glass bottles to sex toys.
But this, he said, was the first time they had had to remove a live animal.
Doctor Huy warned: ‘Eels are animals that can survive for a long time in oxygen-free conditions and can pierce the digestive tract.
‘People should absolutely not insert animals through their anus to create a strong sensation, as the consequences can be serious.’
According to experts, eels can survive out of water for days as long as they are kept moist and out of direct sunlight.
Photo shows lemon in man’s rectum. He would have been an Indian citizen in his 30s
Doctors inserted the lemon back into the patient’s anus until it popped out, after which they sewed the hole in his intestine closed
Shocked doctors in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch-long eel in X-rays taken on July 27 to diagnose the cause of its pain
Disturbingly, this is not the first time surgeons have had to remove the creature from a human’s intestines.
In March, a 34-year-old man from Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh province was admitted to hospital with severe abdominal cramps after complaining of stomach pain.
According to local media, an X-ray and ultrasound were performed, which revealed a foreign object in his abdomen.
It had left him with a bowel perforation and peritonitis, a life-threatening complication in which the tissue lining the abdominal wall swells.
The patient underwent emergency surgery to remove the mysterious object, which shocked surgeons discovered was a live eel, about 12 inches long.
A 34-year-old Vietnamese man left surgeons shocked after they removed a foot-long eel from his stomach during an operation
It was believed that the eel had entered the patient’s body through his anus, slipped past his colon and bitten through his intestines
When the patient was asked how the eel had gotten into his abdomen, he was unable to answer.
However, doctors suspect the substance entered through his anus, slipped into his colon and somehow ended up in his abdomen.
In the event of a bowel perforation, substances can leak from the intestines and end up in the intestines.
What surprised the doctors most was that the eel was still alive when they removed it.
Doctor Pham Manh Hung told local media: “This is a rare case. The rectum is a place with a lot of feces and is prone to infections.
“But the operation was performed safely.”
