Hemorrhoid Treatment Threat to Man's Health After Plastic Ball Got Stuck in His Rectum

A 51-year-old man recently rushed to the hospital in the early hours of one morning, confessing to medics attending to him that he had a tennis ball-sized object inside his anus.

According to a Mail Online report, the man " needed a plastic out of his rectum, after supposedly shoving it there for his hemorrhoid treatment.

Accompanied by his wife, the man said the object was "pushed in" two days before treatment of his piles. Surgeons tasked with retrieving the 7cm x 7 cm ball, originally part of the man's vacuum, did not find evidence of hemorrhoids.

Reporting the man's case in a medical journal, doctors in Jordan revealed that he had attempted to "extract the foreign body" using a screwdriver and spoon, a ScienceDirect report said.

Initial Attempts to Take Out the Ball, a Failure

Initial attempts to take out the ball at the hospital proved a failure. The man, who was not identified, needed to stay overnight at the Princess Basma Teaching Hospital based in Irbid, enabling the team to work out an attack plan.

The man was asked to lay flat on his back with his legs in the air, and surgeons, equipped with sufficient lubrication, attempted to pull out the ball manually.

Nonetheless, they were unsuccessful since the ball was wider than the pelvic outlet. Left with no choice, the man's stomach needed to be cut to allow the research team to get nearer the object. However, even that failed.

In their report, Dr. Mohammad Atamnah and colleagues wrote that an attempt to push the affected ball downwards through the rectum and facilitate trans-anal extraction with fruitless.

Unfortunately, the foreign body was tightly wedged in the pelvis; moving the affected ball upwards did not succeed either.

Shoving Objects May Lead to Infection

Surgeons then cut the ball carefully into three tinier pieces using an electric drill inserted through his dilated rectum.

This made it easy to grasp, enabling the medical team to extract the three individual species that had minor damage. The International Journal of Surgery Reports reported details of the seven-hour surgery.

More often than not, people are shoving objects into their rectum for sexual pleasure. The objects' insertion into the rectum, also called "anal play," poses several risks.

On top of getting stuck objects, objects can potentially perforate as well, the bowel, which can be fatal as material from the digestive tract can spill into other body parts, resulting in an infection.

The National Health Services advises that any person exploring the so-called "anal play" do so safely and utilize an object with a flared base to avoid it from getting lost inside.

Essentially, eating a high-fiber diet for the stool to be softer and easier to expel can alleviate the symptoms of piles.

Related information about strange objects stuck inside the rectum is shown on Tooco's YouTube video below:

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