Doctors examining a 63-year-old American man at a Missouri hospital for routine colon cancer screening were shocked to discover a live fly buzzing in his intestines.
The mystery of this discovery remains unsolved for the doctors and their patient, not understanding how the insect got where it is according to what France Live reported on Wednesday, citing the “American Journal of Gastroenterology”.
But one of the hypotheses favored by doctors is that the fly is in the contaminated lettuce that the sixty-year-old, subject to a 24-hour fast, ate the day before his medical appointment.
Another hypothesis is put forward according to which the patient had involuntarily swallowed eggs or larvae laid by flies which managed to survive the stomach acid to hatch in the stomach, but it is also possible that the fly entered “from below “.
“If the fly came through the bottom, an opening must have been created long enough for it to fly into the colon undetected and make its way to the middle part of the colon without light,” explained Matthew Bechtold to “The Independent”.
If for doctors, this case represents “a very rare colonoscopic discovery”, a spokesperson for the University of Missouri medical school refused to comment on the event.
