In Missouri, doctors were dumbfounded to discover a live fly residing in the man's intestines during the scan. The shocking revelation added an extra layer of discomfort to an already unpleasant situation.
From Oddity Central:
The American Journal of Gastroenterology recently published the bizarre case of a 63-year-old man who had a fly living inside his intestines. The man had shown up for a routine colon cancer screening earlier this year, and doctors at a Missouri hospital conducted a colonoscopy – a procedure where a camera is inserted into the intestines to check for any abnormalities. And that is exactly what the physicians found while exploring the patient’s traverse colon – the area at the top of the large intestine. – an intact fly that had somehow survived the gastric acid and was chilling inside the man’s body.
“This case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding,” doctors wrote in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. “It is a mystery how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon.”
Although no one truly knows how the fly ended up inside the man’s intestines, it is a known fact that fly larvae laid in fruits and vegetables can sometimes survive our stomach acid and then hatch in our intestines. However, the patient had only consumed clear liquids the day before the colonoscopy, as per the doctor’s recommendation. The day before his 24-hour fast, he had eaten pizza and lettuce but did not recall seeing a fly or anything else in his food.
I don't even want to begin to imagine how in the world an insect made it's home inside of this poor guy's intestines.
