Missouri doctors encountered an unusual phenomenon, which is detailed in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. A 63-year-old man who was screened for colon cancer was the subject of an unprecedented case. During a colonoscopy, specialists discovered that a fly was living in the patient’s intestines.
This case was described in medical practice as a “very rare colonoscopic finding”. Doctors cannot explain how the fly got into the patient and developed in his intestines, especially considering that the day before the colonoscopy the man drank only clear liquid, as recommended by the doctor.
Interestingly, even with this diet, the patient does not remember eating food containing flies.
Although the patient drank only clear liquids before his procedure and had eaten pizza and lettuce two days before, he could not remember a fly on the food he ate.
He had no symptoms indicating that he had taken it. Doctors discovered that the fly, which remained intact, somehow survived the stomach acid and continued to live in the transverse colon.
The fly did not show any activity when it was discovered, but photos taken during the procedure clearly show its presence, which surprised the researchers.
Matthew Bechtold, chief of gastroenterology at the University of Missouri, said The independent that he and other doctors urged the fly and confirmed it was dead.
Insects can lay eggs on food, which is then consumed by a human and, in rare cases, survive stomach acid and the gastrointestinal environment, according to the National Library of Medicine.
