Man Loses 23-Inch Dildo In Rectum And Needs New Tool To Remove It
BMJ Case ReportsDoctors in Milan needed to get creative in order to be able to remove a 23-inch dildo from an unidentified 31-year-old man’s rectum, that had been stuck for over 24 hours.
In a fantastic display of “necessity is the mother of invention,” doctors in Italy were forced to create a new medical device in order to remove a stubborn 23-inch dildo from a man’s rectum.
The unidentified 31-year-old man arrived at the emergency room at the AAST Grand Hospital in Milan after he was unable to remove the sex toy himself for the last 24 hours. The man said that the toy had become inaccessible by hand and so required medical attention.
Other than minor abdominal pain the man reported no other discomfort, despite there being a nearly two-foot-long, rigid plastic dildo lodged in his rectum for over a day.
An X-ray of the massive obstruction ultimately referred the man to the endoscopy unit of the hospital. Endoscopist Dr. Lorenzo Dioscoridi and his team applied all of the mainstream methods doctors normally use in cases of extraction. This included snaring the dildo with a wire loop device that’s normally used for removing polyps, as well as attempting to displace the dildo with a dilating balloon and then grabbing the object with a pair of forceps to pull it out.
BMJ Case ReportsA picture of the extractor device hat doctors created in order to remove the dildo from the man’s rectum.
Unfortunately, as the medical staff explained, “We failed to remove the FB (foreign body) using several different standard techniques because of the rigidity, the smoothness and the size of the object.”
Dr. Dioscoridi and his staff were forced to get creative. Their “home-made” device consisted of a double-wrapped wire inserted into a catheter, which doctors explain they fashioned “in order to create a noose.” In essence, they had made a lasso.
Doctors were able to get the wire around the dildo. They then tightened the wire in the catheter as one would with a lasso and were then able to successfully pull the object out.
While a specific number of cases like this, known as “retained rectal foreign bodies” is not known, researchers agree that the trend is not only surprisingly common but also increasing. This man will likely not be the last patient to experience Dr. Dioscoridi’s novel invention.
