We all occasionally have days when we see inanimate objects and think about sticking them in our bums, NOT! But jokes aside, the action of Brits sticking random objects in their bottoms is apparently more common than one might think.
According to a story published in theMetrolast month, the NHS loses about £350,000 every year removing objects that have got stuck in patients’ rectums.
These objects include (but are not limited to) live eels, glass bottles, instant coffee jars with pins in the lid, Buzz Lightyear toys, concrete mix and aubergines, the newspaper reported.
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In one recent case, a 51-year-old man had to be rushed to hospital after getting a carpet cleaning ball stuck in his anus.
After failing to remove the 7cm to 8cm diameter plastic ball himself using a screwdriver and a spoon, the man turned up to A&E in excruciating pain.
The story states that the man and his wife told doctors that he’d inserted the ball two days earlier to ‘treat his haemorrhoids’, but doctors at the hospital found no evidence that he suffered from haemorrhoids.
As the ball was actually wider than his pelvic outlet, extracting it was a difficult mission for the doctors.
Having located the ball using X-rays and an abdominal CT scan, the first attempt to remove the ball the following morning failed.
In their second attempt, doctors opted for a laparotomy, where ‘abdominal wall layers are opened layer by layer’ before trying to ‘push the ball down through the rectum’, the Metro reported. However, this method also didn’t work.
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This gave doctors no choice. They had to dissect the ball first before they could remove it. They did this by using an electric drill to puncture the ball before chopping it up into three parts.
It took doctors seven hours to complete the surgery and discharge the patient with a colostomy bag, booking him in for a proctosigmoidoscopy examination two months later.
The man has reportedly complied with his treatment plan and follow-up visits after being discharged, indicating that he has not stuck anything else up his bum ever since.
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