2023-11-23 15:01:00
While examining a sixty-year-old man for his routine colonoscopy, doctors at a hospital in Missouri in the United States were astonished to discover a live fly in his intestines. No one knows how the insect got into his body or how he survived.
The events took place in a hospital in Missouri in the United States last August. The 63-year-old man had gone there for a simple routine colon cancer screening. But during the colonoscopy, doctors recognized on camera a live fly flying into his colon, reports the Daily Mail.
The “mystery” surrounding the presence of the insect remains intact. Neither the doctors nor the sixty-year-old understand how he might have gotten there.
The fly was discovered alive and well, flying into the sixty-year-old’s colon. Colonoscopy Screenshot – University of Missouri School of Medicine
A similar case in the 80s
However, the man had respected the diet recommended for his examination by only consuming clear liquids in order to empty his digestive tract. He specified that the day before his 24-hour fast, he had eaten a pizza with salad, but that he had not seen a fly in his meal. The suggestion that he swallowed the fly is possible, but others have been considered.
Experts explained, for example, that it was possible that the sixty-year-old had involuntarily swallowed eggs or larvae laid by flies. The insects would then survive the stomach acid and hatch in his stomach.
In the 1980s, a similar case was reported in Washington. A doctor discovered moving worms in the stool of a 12-month-old girl. The cause ? Bananas hanging in her kitchen that had ripened for too long and become a nursery for flies.
The myiasis trail
Regarding the 63-year-old man: “[C’est un] “mystery regarding how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon” the doctors explained in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
It is also not an intestinal myiasis, by which flies and larvae infest the human intestine. In this case, the patient becomes infected through contact with an already infected animal.
But according to Matthew Bechtold, chief of gastroenterology at the University of Missouri, there is little chance that the man swallowed the insect. Especially because the digestive enzymes and stomach acid should have killed the fly.
“A very rare colonoscopic discovery”
The other question that arises is: would the fly have entered from the bottom? “If the fly passed through the bottom, an opening must have been created long enough for it to fly into the colon undetected and make its way through the middle portion of the colon without lumen into a very large intestine curved,” Matthew Bechtold told The Independent. An equally unlikely hypothesis.
While a spokesperson for the University of Missouri School of Medicine, where the discovery was made, declined to comment, “this case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding,” the doctors said in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
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