By Montserrat Arqué
Nov 29, 2023, 2:37 PM EST
There is no doubt that science and medicine are 2 infinite fields and that despite all the studies and research carried out around them, they will always end up surprising us.
In fact, an unusual event has occurred in Missouri, where a 63-year-old patient, whose name was not revealed, attended a medical appointment with his primary doctor a few days ago to undergo his annual routine checkup after suffering from cancer. of colon.
They performed an endoscopy on the man and the camera inserted into his intestine found something inexplicable inside: a fly.
Everything was going perfectly in this patient’s examination until it was time to examine his large intestine. It was there where they came across the insect.
“This case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding,” the doctors said in an interview with the American Journal of Gastroenterology, and stated that it is a “mystery” to know how the insect reached that part of the body, especially because it was intact.
When telling the patient what had happened, the man commented that he had not felt any discomfort. In fact, before the study, he drank clear liquids and 2 days before, he had eaten pizza and salad, although he did not realize that they both had any insects lying around. But there were no symptoms that he had ingested it either, so the answer is a total unknown.
Regarding this curious medical matter, Matthew Bechtold, head of Gastroenterology at the University of Missouri, told The Independent that he and other doctors stung the fly and confirmed that it was dead. The curious thing is that the fly was intact, but for that it should not have entered the patient’s mouth.
“You would think that upper digestive enzymes and stomach acid would have broken down the fly. However, the fly was intact, which made this hypothesis less likely,” added the specialist.
“If from below, an opening must have been created long enough for the fly to fly undetected into the colon and somehow reach the middle part of the colon without lumen in a very curved large intestine. However, this also seems unlikely,” she stated.
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