A man who stuck a live eel up his backside suffered intense pain as the sharp-toothed sea creature tried to bite its way out of his digestive tract.
Horrified doctors in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch-long eel in X-rays taken to diagnose the cause of her pain on July 27, according to local media. reports.
They discovered that the eel had tried to get out by biting the wall of its large intestine.
But initial attempts to remove the fish with a probe through the anus were thwarted when doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi found a lemon there as well.
Surgeons had to cut into its abdomen to remove the eel with forceps, and images of the creature on the operating table are stomach-churning.
Horrifying footage shows surgeons removing an eel from a man’s body at a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The 26-inch creature is seen lying on the operating table, alongside a lemon that was also reportedly removed from the man’s anus.
Doctors manipulated the lemon into the patient’s anus until it came out, before sewing up the hole in the bowel and cleaning out the leaked faecal matter.
Doctors say he would have died without treatment and will have to live with a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.
Hospital officials did not identify the patient, only identifying him as a 31-year-old Indian national.
The deputy director of the hospital’s Colon and Rectal Surgery Center, Dr. Le Nhat Huy, said they had performed many surgeries to remove foreign objects from patients’ anuses.
He told local media that everything from glass bottles to sex toys had been removed.
But this was, he said, the first time they had to remove a live animal.
Dr Huy warned: ‘Eels are animals that can survive in anaerobic conditions for a long time and can perforate the digestive tract.
‘People should never insert animals into their anus to create a strong sensation, as the consequences can be serious.’
Experts say that as long as they are kept moist and out of direct sunlight, eels can survive for many days out of water.
The image shows the lemon inside the man’s rectum. He is said to be an Indian citizen in his 30s.
Doctors manipulated the lemon down through the patient’s anus until it came out before sewing up the hole in his intestine.
Horrified doctors in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch-long eel in X-rays taken to diagnose the cause of her pain on July 27.
Disturbingly, this is not the first time surgeons have had to remove the creature from inside a person.
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 pains.
Local media say she had an X-ray and ultrasound, which showed she had a foreign body hidden in her abdomen.
It had caused intestinal perforation and peritonitis, a potentially fatal complication when the tissue lining the abdomen swells.
The patient underwent emergency surgery to remove the mysterious object, which surgeons were shocked to discover was a 30cm-long live eel.
A 34-year-old Vietnamese man left surgeons horrified after they removed a 30cm-long eel from his belly during an operation.
The eel is believed to have entered the patient’s body by entering through the anus, sliding down the colon and biting into his intestine.
When asked how the eel could have ended up in his belly, the patient could not give an answer.
But doctors believe it entered through his anus, slid down his colon and somehow entered his abdomen.
Elements can leak from the intestines and enter the bowel if patients suffer from a bowel perforation.
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 site with abundant fecal matter and prone to infections.
“However, the surgery was performed safely.”
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