A constipated 47-year-old man who wasn’t left was left in extreme pain and needed surgery after he inserted a water glass into his rectum while drunk.
The Nepalese man arrived at the emergency department and told medics the 12 cm-long glass had been inside him for three days.
Initially, the man said it had happened by accident before revealing he had inserted the glass himself for sexual gratification while drunk, Journal of Nepal Medical Centre reports.
The date of incident was not revealed in the case report by doctors at Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital.
The married man from Kathmandu hadn’t had a bowel movement in two days, he said he had tried to remove the glass himself but failed.
While he had not suffered from any bleeding, he was in a lot of pain, also his abdomen was not swollen.
After an X-ray was done, doctors tried to remove it but couldn’t get a grasp on the glass as it was inverted.
Medical staff then performed an exploratory laparotomy, which is a surgery to open up the abdomen. At that point, they attempted to move the glass out by ‘milking’ or squeezing the lower intestine.
‘Milking was attempted to deliver the glass through the anus, but this was unsuccessful as the glass was high up, inverted and tightly wedged,’ the journal explained.
‘Hence sigmoid enterostomy was done and the glass was extracted.’ An enterostomy is the surgical incision into an intestine, allowing doctors direct access to the glass.
The man remained in hospital for seven days, recovering from the incident.
Two months later, at a follow-up appointment, doctors said he was well and had fully recovered.
