Metro last month, the NHS loses about £350,000 every year removing objects that have got stuck in patients’ rectums. These objects include (but are not limited to) live eels, glass bottles, instant coffee jars with pins in the lid, Buzz Lightyear toys, concrete mix and aubergines, the newspaper reported.Stay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up for one of our free newsletters here.In one recent case, a 51-year-old man had to be rushed to hospital after getting a carpet cleaning ball stuck in his anus.After failing to remove the 7cm to 8cm diameter plastic ball himself using a screwdriver and a spoon, the man turned up to A&E in excruciating pain.The story states that the man and his wife told doctors that he’d inserted the ball two days earlier to ‘treat his haemorrhoids’, but doctors at the hospital found no evidence that he suffered from haemorrhoids.As the ball was actually wider than his pelvic outlet, extracting it was a difficult mission for the doctors.Having located the ball using X-rays and an abdominal CT scan, the first attempt to remove the ball the following morning failed.In their second attempt, doctors opted for a laparotomy, where ‘abdominal wall layers are opened layer by layer’ before trying to ‘push the ball down through the rectum’, the Metro reported.
However, this method also didn’t work.READ MORE: Bloke gets 2kg dumbbell stuck up his bum and medics have to remove it with their handsThis gave doctors no choice.
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