Eel removed from
man's bladder after entering penis during beauty spa
Source: www.metro.co.uk
Zhang Nan was bathing with live eels to cleanse his skin when
one rogue serpent took a liking to his manhood.
Foreign object: The dead eel is placed next to the surgical tool
used to remove it from Zhang Nan's bladder (Picture: CEN)
The eel treatment in question is a similar concept to the
popular London spas that offer fish pedicures.
Thinking that the eels would make him look ten years younger,
Nan dived into the water and let them feast upon layers of dead
skin.
But after laying in the spa bath, Nan felt a sharp pain and
realised a small eel was working its way up his urethra and into
his bladder.
'I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my
body. But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realised a
small eel had gone into the end of my penis,' the 56-year-old
from Honghu, Hubei province said.
'I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too
slippery to be held and it disappeared up my penis.'
(OK, that's enough cringing now... it's horrible, though, we
know...)
Rushing himself to hospital, the man underwent a three-hour
operation to remove the six-inch eel which was dead by the time
doctors found it.
Surgeon Jin Wang said that, because of the eel's slippery
nature, it was able to make a smooth entry into the genitals of
Nan.
'The diameter of the urethra in a man's penis is just a little
narrower, but because eels are quite slippery, its body worked
as a lubricant and so it got into the penis smoothly,' he said.
(Really - stop cringing - we can see you...)
Believe it or not, Nan's case follows a similar incident when a
14-year-old boy in India had to undergo emergency surgery.
In a case study published by urologists Dr G Vezhaventhan and R
Jeyaraman, they described how they removed a 2cm-long fish from
the boy's bladder.
The teenager said that while holding the fish he had gone to the
toilet and, while urinating, the fish had 'slipped from his hand
and entered his urethra'.
Hmmm...
