Doctors pull 26-inch EEL out of a man’s backside

A man who stuffed a live eel up his backside was left in agony when the sharp-toothed sea creature tried to bite its way out of his digestive tract. 

 

Horrified medics in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch long eel in X-ray scans taken to diagnose the cause of his pain on July 27, local media reports.

They found the eel had attempted to chew its way out by biting through the wall of his large intestine.

But initial attempts to remove the fish with a probe through his anus were thwarted when medics at Viet Duc Hospital, in Hanoi, found a lemon stuffed up there too.

Surgeons had to cut in through his abdomen to remove the eel with forceps, with stomach-churning pictures showing the creature on the operating table.

Doctors manipulated the lemon back down through the patient’s anus until it popped out before stitching up the hole in his intestine and cleaning out leaked faecal matter.

Medics say he would have d!ed without treatment and will have to live with a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.

Hospital officials have not named the patient and only identified him as a 31-year-old Indian national.

Hospital Deputy Director of the Center for Colon and Rectal Surgery Dr Le Nhat Huy said they had performed many surgeries to remove foreign objects from patients’ anuses.

Dr Huy warned: ‘Eels are animals that can survive in anaerobic conditions for a long time and can puncture the digestive tract.

‘People should absolutely not insert animals through their anus to create a strong sensation, as the consequences can be severe.’