GUWAHATI: In a bizarre incident, a 30 year old patient from Guwahati approached a medical practitioner complaining of severe pain in his lower abdomen. The patient informed the doctor of having accidentally ingested earphones.
On conducting an X-ray, the doctor found that the patient had a two feet long mobile phone charging cable stuck somewhere inside his body.
“Usually, when you ingest something, it comes out through excretion. We gave him laxatives to help clear his bowels but that didn’t work on the patient; we even performed an Endoscopy on the patient but nothing was found in his intestines,” narrated Dr. Walliul Islam, the surgeon who conducted the surgery, talking to G Plus.
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Doctors had to resort to using the IITV machine, which is a special X-ray machine found in Operation Theatres. “On scanning with this, it was found that the object was stuck in his Urinary Bladder,” said the surgeon.
Doctors claimed the incident to have been a case of psychological perversion called Instrumentation. This type of Instrumentation is called Urethral Sounding.
In Urethral sounding, a person inserts a toy into the urethra. The practice originally started by medical practitioners to clear urethral obstructions is now also used by some people as a satisfying form of sexual play.