‘Even we were surprised as to how the cockroach managed to stay intact’
Plagued by a stomach bug for a few days, an Indian man and the doctors treating him were surprised to discover the source of his malaise: a three-centimetre cockroach alive and wriggling in his small intestine.
Doctors performed an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy – when a tiny camera at the end of a long, flexible tube is fed orally into the upper digestive system – and found the many-legged squatter.
“Even we were surprised as to how the cockroach managed to stay intact,” he added.
Faced with the “life-threatening situation,” Vatsya and his team performed a 10-minute endoscopic procedure to evict the uninvited guest.
“We activated the suction button on the scope, effectively sucking the cockroach into the suction channel, leading to its removal from the body and saving the man’s life,” Vatsya told the Express.
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