Doctors in Vietnam have reported the horrific experience of a patient who had his intestines bitten through after a 2-foot-long eel was allegedly inserted into his anus. Surgeons saved the man’s life and removed the eel, but also removed part of his colon. Here’s a Bizarre Real-World Event That Reads Like a Trailer for an Upcoming Release Alien: Romulus Movie.
The horrific story of the corpse was reported by Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi late last month. On July 27, a 31-year-old man from India visited the emergency room complaining of severe abdominal pain. The man quickly admitted that he had willingly inserted a large eel into his anus, according to the hospital. He quickly underwent imaging tests, which confirmed the presence of the eel, and was then prepared for a colonoscopy to remove his rectum. But doctors discovered a complication: the man had also inserted a lemon into his anus, seemingly to ensure the eel wouldn’t wriggle out.
The man’s pain continued to worsen, prompting the medical team to perform emergency abdominal surgery to retrieve the eel from the other end. When the man was opened, the team found that the giant eel (two feet long and about four inches in diameter) had reached his abdominal cavity by biting through his colon. Doctors effortlessly pulled out the eel, removed the lemon and closed the crack in the man’s colon. But the feces had already flowed into the man’s abdominal cavity. In order to prevent more feces from flowing out from the sutured wound, the doctor decided to also remove part of the upper colon.
The hospital report did not provide a reason for what the man did. But it does point out that people – especially young people – will try to seek sexual sensations from unusual things inserted into the anus. While this may be the first incident of eel anal penetration that doctors at the hospital have encountered, surprisingly, it’s not even the first case discovered in the country this year. In early March, doctors at another hospital in Vietnam reported that they removed a 12-inch eel from a man’s abdomen, which had also likely been entered through the anus. Twenty years ago, Hong Kong doctors reported another case of docked eels.
Le Nhat Huy, deputy director of the Colorectal Surgery Center at Viet Duc University Hospital, said eels can survive in anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions for quite some time and can pierce the digestive tract. Huey added that under no circumstances should people try to insert an eel or any other animal into their anus because the consequences are unpredictable. To this I say: Doctor, there is absolutely nothing wrong with following this advice!
