Man complaining of indigestion finds out it’s something more skin-crawling
A man suffering from indigestion symptoms was shocked to learn he had a living cockroach inside him.
The 23-year-old from New Delhi in India visited his doctors after experiencing some stomach pain and bloating over the previous few days.
Routine tests were carried out and medics soon discovered the 3cm insect in his small intestine and incredibly it was still alive.
A endoscopy procedure was carried out at Fortis Vasant Kunj hospital soon after and the cockroach safely removed, reports India Express.
Dr Shubham Vatsya, a senior consultant in gastroenterology, said the patient had no idea how he’d consumed the bug or how it was still alive.
‘Even we were surprised as to how the cockroach managed to stay intact,’ Dr Vatsya said.
He said the cockroach could have been life-threatening, causing for, example, a dangerous infection.
‘So, we immediately proceeded to extract the insect,’ he explained.
The endoscopy procedure involved using a tool that sucked up the cockroach.
Dr Vatsya said: ‘We activated the suction button on the scope (an endoscopy tool), effectively sucking the cockroach into the suction channel, leading to its removal from the body and saving the man’s life.’
Last year doctors in the US found a fly inside a man’s intestines during a colonoscopy that was also alive.
The patient, who was 63, had gone for a routine colon cancer screening in Missouri, when the insect was discovered.
Neither the man nor the doctors could work out how it got in there.
The case was published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, which said: ‘[It is a] mystery on how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon.’
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