There was a man who swallowed a fly ...
Doctors in Missouri were baffled to spot a fly inside a man's intestines during a routine colon screening.
Images taken during the colonoscopy and published in the
American Journal of Gastroenterology show the intact fly inside the man's colon.
Matthew Bechtold, the chief of Gastroenterology at the University of Missouri, told
The Independent that he had prodded the fly and
confirmed it was dead.
Fly found in a routine colonoscopy (N. Sharma et al.,
American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2023)
The 63-year-old patient told doctors that he had only consumed clear liquids the day before the procedure and had no idea how the fly had gotten into his colon. He said he had eaten pizza and lettuce for dinner two days before the procedure but did not remember a fly being in his food.
The finding was described as "a very rare colonoscopy finding and mystery on how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon."
The
transverse colon is the "most mobile" and "longest part" of the large intestine. Bech told told
The Independent that the fly could have reached it by entering the patient's body through the mouth or rectum.
He said that if the fly entered through the mouth it would likely have been "degraded" by upper digestive enzymes and stomach acid, meaning that wasn't likely.
However, he said it was also unlikely that it entered through the rectum.
https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-discovery-of-intact-housefly-in-mans-intestines-shocks-doctors
