Nagapattinam: In a bizarre case and one could have never heard of in medical history, doctors at a government hospital here performed a complex surgery and removed an alcohol bottle from the rectum of man.
The 29-year-old man, who had inserted the bottle in an inebriated condition into his anus a couple of days back and was struggling to remove it, was administered spinal anaesthesia and a team of doctors removed the bottle
(luckily not found broken) after a two-hour long surgery.
Doctors at the GH were taken aback when the man, after suffering from excruciating pain for the last two days, came to the hospital with acute pain in rectum and abdomen. He also explained as to how he inserted it to the doctors. An X-day revealed presence of a glass bottle in the large intenstine.
According to Hospital General Surgeon S Pandiyaraj, who led a team of doctors in this complicated surgery, despite under pain for over two days, the man was ashamed and had not told anyone, including his family members.
Only after the pain became unbearable, he came to the hospital, he said, adding, several attempts by the man to remove the bottle only resulted in pushing it further up to the sigmoid colon in the large intestine.
‘I have never seen a case like this. If the bottle had broken in his intestine, we would have had to surgically remove it piece by piece and then also stitch each tear caused in the intestine by the breakage’, he added. . After surgery, the patient is now stable and under observation.