A group of doctors were completely shocked when they discovered a live fly living in the transverse colon of an adult man during a routine colonoscopy.
The American went to the hospital to get tested and find out if he had some kind of stomach cancer, and in the end the doctors found something much stranger.
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According to the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the animal was filmed flying and eating remains in the 63yearold man’s intestines.
“This case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding. It is a mystery how the intact fly got to the transverse colon,” one of the doctors said in an interview with the newspaper.
Doctors don’t know exactly how the fly got into the man’s intestines. Reproduction/Facebook
The team cannot explain how the insect survived the stomach acid or how it got to this location, but suspects the patient may have unintentionally ingested a type of larva that can survive in extreme environments.
However, they stated that the fly does not pose a threat to human health, especially because it cannot reproduce and does not move.
Ladybugs, cockroaches and even eyes: Doctors find strange things in patients’ intestines
Routine checkups can reveal some truly shocking things. Also for doctors! On social media, gastroenterologists reveal some of the most bizarre findings they have made during endoscopies and similar examinations. It is a clear sample that does not get into a closed mouth, cockroach or eye (?!). A famous case was registered in 2019 when doctors saw a ladybug in the colon of a 59yearold patient.
No one knows how the insect got so far into the patient’s digestive tract and got there so well that it appeared alive.READ MORE: Crazy Planet: Images from a surprising week around the world
There is a suspicion that the laxative cocktail given to the patients during examination preparation may have helped on the arduous journey to the organ
Another very surprising case was this cockroach that was seen in the transverse colon of a 51yearold woman
According to the published case study, the insect was less than 1cm in size and carried some green liquid suggesting the possibility that the animal was accidentally eaten while ingesting gelatin shortly before the study.WORTH YOUR CLICK: Snake on board: Pilot makes an emergency landing after a deadly snake crawls onto his lap
In a case without much context, a very alert glass eye was found in the duodenum of an 85yearold patient
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This cockroach was found in a 52yearold patient with a history of depression. The insect was in such good condition that it could be vacuumed by instruments virtually intact and later analyzed by a laboratory. In later interviews, the patient stated that her house was infested with cockroaches and that she may have accidentally eaten one.
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