Doctors at Jianxi Children's Hospital in Jianxi Province were left speechless after they discovered an acupuncture needle during an X-ray procedure of an 11-year-old boy.
The medicines, a Mail Online report specified, made the painful finding after they investigated the patient who had been struggling to urinate.
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Doctors were shocked to discover an acupuncture needle that had been inserted in a boy’s genitals and pushed up his bladder tube.
Acupuncture Needles Inserted in Genitals
Unable to explain the pain the boy was feeling, he was sent to the said hospital for an X-ray
Unable to explain the boy's pain, he was sent to Jiangxi Children's Hospital in Jiangxi Province, central China, for an X-ray.
After the scan, doctors were shocked to discover the said needle had been inserted in his genitals and pushed up his bladder tube, as specified in a Mirror report.
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After he was questioned, the boy admitted he inserted the needles into his urethra himself because he was "bored," and he wanted to find out if it was possible.
According to Chief Medic Rao Pinde, the boy had inserted the acupuncture needle 12 hours before he was seen, making him unable to urinate.
When his genitals turned sore, the boy sought help, although he did not admit what he had done. He was then rushed for surgery, where the needle was taken out through a non-invasive surgery with the use of an endoscope which found the needle. The boy was later allowed to return home following his surgery.
Previous Self-Insertion Incidents
This is not the first time such an incident happened. In 2021, a 10-year-old boy had a sewing needle, similar to the length of a Twix, removed through his genitals after it got stuck in his urethra.
The unidentified child from Iran was brought to the hospital after he shoved the nine-centimeter-long object inside and struggled to get it out for longer than three hours.
Essentially doctor who treated the boy explained that he had pushed the needle into his urethra, carrying urine and semen, first, with blunt ends.
It remains unclear the reason the child did so, although the medics noted a number of probable reasons, which include pleasure, curiosity, or a short psychological episode.
Nonetheless, they said he doesn't have any history of mental health conditions. The details of these conditions around the incident revealed in the Urology Case Reports journal are scarce.
Self-Insertion of Foreign Bodies in Urethra
As discussed in the case report, self-insertion of foreign bodies "into the urethra" is part of some disorders referred to as "polyembolokoilamania," in which a patient is inserting foreign bodies into "body orifices" for various reasons which may be considered psychopathological for other reasons including urological procedures, self-stimulation, erection enhancement, curiosity, contraception, and attention.
A lot of approaches have been used for the removal of foreign bodies, which include manual extraction, open cystotomy, endoscopic retrieval, and voiding to expel foreign bodies, as well as the most common approach to removing a foreign body in the distal urethra is manual extraction with the use of external pressure into the urethra by milking and endoscopic techniques must have been utilized for the foreign body's extraction in the proximal urethra.
Endoscopic techniques are useful when the proximal tip of a foreign body is accessible via the urethra otherwise, it heightens the danger of urethral injury.
Related information about needle insertion inside a child's body is shown on On Demand News's YouTube video below:
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