Chinese doctors remove live eel from constipated man’s stomach after folk remedy fails him
Chinese doctors remove live eel from constipated man’s stomach after folk remedy fails him
Doctors removed the live eel from the patient’s stomach. Photo: SCMP
Doctors in southern China have removed a half-metre live eel from the stomach of a middle-aged man who inserted the elongated fish in himself supposedly as a folk remedy for constipation, according to a local newspaper.
The patient told doctors in Guangzhou that he had heard word on the street that his condition could be effectively relieved or even cured by a living eel, the Guangzhou Dailyreported on Tuesday.
The man almost died after he inserted a live eel as a folk cure for constipation Photo:SCMP
He was hospitalised last week when the live fish began to wreak havoc on his intestines after he inserted it in his anus, the report said.
Eels have pointed jaws, sharp teeth and a slender body that moves in waves, allowing them to burrow efficiently through sand, mud and pebbles. The eel used by the man was said to have a head as large as a ping-pong ball.
One doctor said that when the man arrived at the hospital, his stomach was inflated like an air balloon, causing sharp pain.
In surgery they found the animal had broken through the intestines and generated “a mess” in the man’s abdominal cavity, “almost killing him”, the doctor said.
A man was hospitalised with a live eel stuck up his bum Photo:Metro
Eels are a common fish in southern China, available in many local markets. In 2013, another man in Guangdong province was admitted to hospital after inserting an eel into himself for sexual pleasure.
An X-ray of the eel inside the man Photo:Metro
A blue movie fan had some serious explaining to do after arriving at a hospital in China with a live eel stuck up his bum.
The kinky 39-year-old was copying a scene from an X-rated film when he lost grip of the slippery eel in Shunde, Guangdong province.
After finding he couldn’t get it out, the unmarried man rushed to the nearest accident and emergency unit for medical assistance.
He told the astonished medics: ‘Please, please help me. The eel is moving through my body.’
A team of surgeons spent hours removing the 20-inch Asian swamp eel which weighed more than half a kilo.
‘The eel was simply trying to find it’s way out,’ explained one of the medical team.
Really don’t understand what they are thinking…..
Source:SCMP, Metro
