- The constipated 56-year-old waited two days before seeing a doctor.
- In the UK, retrieving objects from the rectum costs the NHS £340,000 a year.
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A Taiwanese man who had a coconut stuck in his rectum had to be removed by surgeons.
The constipated 56-year-old man, whose identity has not been released, waited two days before seeking medical attention.
But he didn’t confess how or why he used the fruit in the first place.
Write in the British Journal of Surgerydoctors said he was unable to urinate and complained of severe abdominal pain.
Upon examination, the scan showed that the fruit was lodged in her rectum, compressing the urethra and preventing her from urinating.
The constipated 56-year-old man, whose identity has not been released, waited two days before seeking medical attention.
Writing in the British Journal of Surgery, doctors said he was unable to urinate and complained of severe abdominal pain. Upon examination, the scan showed that the fruit was lodged in her rectum, compressing the urethra and preventing her from urinating.
The date of the incident was not revealed in the doctor’s report at E-Da Hospital in the southern city of Kaohsiung. The coconut, measuring 9cm long, was then removed via laparotomy, an operation that involves opening the abdomen.
A 2021 study by the Royal College of Surgeons of England found that the number of objects needing to be removed from the rectum by the NHS is increasing. Cases were increasing particularly quickly among men
The date of the incident was not revealed in the doctor’s report at E-Da Hospital in the southern city of Kaohsiung.
The coconut, measuring 9cm long, was then removed via laparotomy, an operation that involves opening the abdomen.
Doctors did not reveal when the man was released.
However, laparotomy procedures often involve a hospital stay of up to five days and a recovery period of six to eight weeks, according to the NHS.
Retrieval of objects stuck in the rectum was first mentioned in medical literature in the 16th century.
Besides the corks, other objects have reportedly been recovered from vaginas by doctors over the years, including plastic aerosol caps, a plastic cup and even a child’s toy.
NHS doctors are no strangers to similar incidents, with analysis of data from last year revealing around 400 ‘foreign’ objects are removed from English anuses each year.
It is estimated that this would cost the taxpayer around £340,000 a year for things like the drugs needed to carry out the procedures and the labor of NHS staff.
But inserting objects into the rectum, also called anal play, carries a number of risks.
In addition to trapping objects, they can also potentially perforate the intestine, which can be fatal because material from the digestive tract can spread to other parts of the body, causing infection.