DAILY MAIL – 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. [For a lemon-fresh scent? – HH]
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.
What stunned the doctors most was that the eel was still alive when they removed it.
“What stunned the doctors most was that the eel was still alive when they removed it.”
The 26-inch creature is pictured on the operating table – alongside a lemon that was also reportedly removed from the man’s anus
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 died 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 …
