Doctors pull 26-inch EEL out of a man's backside after he forced the live creature into his anus (along with a lemon)… and it started to bite his large intestine

A man who stuffed a unrecorded eel up his backside was near successful agony erstwhile nan sharp-toothed oversea animal tried to wound its measurement retired of his digestive tract.

Horrified medics successful Vietnam discovered nan 26-inch agelong eel successful X-ray scans taken to diagnose nan origin of his symptom connected July 27, section media reports.

They recovered nan eel had attempted to chew its measurement retired by biting done nan wall of his ample intestine.

But first attempts to region nan food pinch a probe done his anus were thwarted erstwhile medics astatine Viet Duc Hospital, successful Hanoi, recovered a citrus stuffed up location too.

Surgeons had to trim successful done his abdomen to region nan eel pinch forceps, pinch stomach-churning pictures showing nan animal connected nan operating table.

Doctors manipulated nan citrus backmost down done nan patient's anus until it popped retired earlier stitching up nan spread successful his intestine and cleaning retired leaked faecal matter.

Medics opportunity he would person died without curen and will person to unrecorded pinch a colostomy container for nan remainder of his life.

Hospital officials person not named nan diligent and only identified him arsenic a 31-year-old Indian national.

Hospital Deputy Director of nan Center for Colon and Rectal Surgery Dr Le Nhat Huy said they had performed galore surgeries to region overseas objects from patients' anuses.

He told section media really they had removed everything from solid bottles to activity toys.

But this was, he said, nan first clip they had had to region a unrecorded animal.

Dr Huy warned: 'Eels are animals that tin past successful anaerobic conditions for a agelong clip and tin puncture nan digestive tract.

'People should perfectly not insert animals done their anus to create a beardown sensation, arsenic nan consequences tin beryllium severe.'

Experts opportunity that arsenic agelong arsenic they are damp and retired of nonstop sunlight eels tin past galore days retired of water.

Disturbingly, it's not nan first clip that surgeons person had to region nan critter from  a person's insides.

In March, a 34-year-old man from nan bluish Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, was admitted to infirmary pinch terrible abdominal cramps aft complaining of tummy aches.

Local media claims he was fixed an X-ray and an ultrasound, which showed he had a overseas assemblage lurking successful his abdomen.

It had caused him intestinal perforation and peritonitis — a life-threatening complication erstwhile nan insubstantial lining nan abdomen becomes swollen.

The diligent was fixed urgent room to region nan enigma entity - which nan shocked surgeons discovered was a 30-cm agelong unrecorded eel.

When quizzed astir really nan eel could person ended up successful his belly, nan diligent couldn't supply an answer.

But medics judge it entered his anus, slid up his colon and someway entered his abdomen.

Items tin leak retired of nan intestines and into nan bowel if patients suffer intestinal perforation.

What stunned nan doctors astir was that nan eel was still live erstwhile they removed it.

Doctor Pham Manh Hung told section media: 'This is simply a uncommon case, nan rectum is simply a tract pinch abundant faecal matter and prone to infection.

'However, nan room was performed safely.'