Man Sticks 2-Foot Eel up His Butt, Gets Surgery After Eel Chews Through His Intestines

Doctors successful Vietnam reported a patient’s horrific acquisition of having a 2-foot eel chew done his intestines aft helium reportedly inserted it into his anus. Surgeons were capable to prevention the man’s beingness and extract the eel, though not without removing portion of his colon arsenic well. It’s a bizarre real-world incidental that reads similar the trailer for the upcoming Alien: Romulus movie.

Viet Duc University Hospital successful Hanoi reported the assemblage fearfulness communicative precocious past month. On July 27,  a 31-year-old man, primitively from India, visited the exigency section with terrible abdominal pain. According to the hospital, the antheral soon admitted that helium had willingly stuck a ample eel up done his anus. He was rapidly fixed imaging tests, which confirmed the eel’s presence, and past prepped for a colonoscopy to region it rectally. But the doctors discovered a complication: The antheral had besides inserted a citrus into his anus, seemingly to guarantee that the eel wouldn’t wriggle retired the mode it came.

The man’s symptom continued to turn worse, prompting the aesculapian squad to execute exigency abdominal country to retrieve the eel from the different end. Once the antheral was opened up, the squad recovered that the hefty eel (two feet agelong and astir 4 inches successful diameter) had reached his abdominal cavity by biting done his colon. The doctors were capable to propulsion retired the eel, popular escaped the lemon, and adjacent up the gaping spread successful the man’s colon without overmuch trouble. But feces had already spilled into the man’s abdominal cavity and to support much of it from coming retired of the sutured wound, doctors decided to region portion of the precocious colon arsenic well.

The hospital’s study doesn’t supply the man’s rationale for what helium did. But it does enactment that people—young men successful particular—will effort to question intersexual sensations from antithetic things inserted into the anus. And portion this whitethorn beryllium the archetypal lawsuit of eel anal insertion ever encountered by the hospital’s doctors, it amazingly isn’t adjacent the archetypal lawsuit spotted successful the state this year. Earlier this March, doctors astatine a antithetic infirmary successful Vietnam reported removing a 12-inch eel from a man’s abdomen, which had apt besides recovered its mode wrong done the anus. Doctors successful Hong Kong reported different lawsuit of butt eels 20 years ago.

Le Nhat Huy, lawman manager of the Center for Colon and Rectal Surgery astatine Viet Duc University Hospital, says that eels tin unrecorded successful anaerobic (oxygen-free) conditions for rather a portion and tin puncture done the digestive tract. Huy added that nether nary circumstances should radical effort to instrumentality eels oregon immoderate different animals up done their anus, fixed the unpredictable consequences. To which I say: Absolutely nary occupation pursuing that advice, doctor!