Doctors are no strangers to odd medical emergencies, in fact, they and police officers have seen the worst when it comes to emergencies, but they keep having their minds blown constantly due to unique circumstances.
A Singapore medical discovery from 2018 just surfaced, where a 55-year-old man stormed the hospital with a rare pain in his throat. The pain followed a few minutes after the man ate a seafood meal containing an octopus. As it turned out, the octopus didn’t get to his stomach but got stuck at the gastroesophageal junction, which was causing the pain. So the man didn’t chew the octopus but decided to swallow it with all its scary legs.
According to VladTV;
Doctors worldwide have grown accustomed to encountering patients with bizarre health emergencies occasionally, but in 2018 a medical team at Tan Tock Seng Hospital came across a predicament far more unusual than most peculiar instances. A 55-year-old entered their hospital in need of medical attention regarding throat pain. According to reports, he had been regurgitating repeatedly since consuming a seafood meal containing an octopus. So, the medics performed an esophageal manometry to examine his throat and stomach. This led to a mind-blowing discovery.
The scan revealed that the patient had an octopus stuck near his gastroesophageal junction (an area between the esophagus and the stomach). The revelation ignited a medical procedure that prompted the team to use forceps and an endoscope to remove the eight-legged sea creature. The patient was released from the hospital two days after the octopus was removed from his body.
The risks people take in recent times are enormous and baffling, luckily for this man, the medical team was swift to save his life.
The lesson to be learned here is to cut up your octopus before you eat it. That will save you a trip to hospital
Check out the disgusting photos…