Man Sticks 2-Foot Eel Up His Butt, Has Surgery After Chewing Eel Through His Guts

Doctors in Vietnam have reported the horrifying incident of a patient being chewed off by a two-metre snake in his intestines after it was reportedly inserted into his anus. Surgeons were able to save the man’s life and remove the tumor, although without removing part of his colon. A strange real-world incident that reads like the latest trailer Alien: Romulus the movie.

Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi reported a shocking case late last month. On July 27, a 31-year-old man, originally from India, visited the emergency department with severe abdominal pain. According to the hospital, the man quickly admitted that he was determined to make a big hole in his anus. He was immediately given an imaging test, which confirmed the presence of the eel, and was then scheduled for a colonoscopy to remove it rectally. But the doctors found a problem: The man had also put a lemon in his anus, which seemed to ensure that the penis would not break the way it came out.

The man’s pain continued to increase, prompting the medical team to perform an emergency laparotomy to remove the tumor from the other side. When the man was opened, the team found that a long snake (two feet long and about four inches wide) had reached the stomach cavity by biting the abscess. The doctors were able to remove the eel, remove the lemon, and close the hole in the man’s colon without any major problems. But feces had already spilled into the man’s stomach cavity and to prevent more from coming out of the punctured wound, the doctors decided to remove part of the upper abscess.

The hospital report does not give the man reasons for what he did. But it notes that people—especially young men—will try to find sexual sensations in strange objects inserted into the anus. And although this may be the first case of the doctors of this hospital being put on a butt, surprisingly it is not even the first case seen in the country this year. Earlier this March, doctors at a hospital in Vietnam reported that they removed a 12-inch tumor from a man’s stomach, which may have also entered through the anus. Doctors in Hong Kong reported another case of butt eels 20 years ago.

Le Nhat Huy, deputy director of the Center for Thigh Surgery and Thigh Surgery at Viet Duc University Hospital, says eels can survive in oxygen-deprived conditions for long periods of time and can puncture the digestive tract. Huy added that people should never try to attach eels or other animals through the anus, given the unpredictable results. To which I say: There is absolutely no problem in following that advice, doctor!