Doctors were shocked after discovering that a Singapore man’s throat discomfort was caused by an eight-legged mollusk that had become stuck in his gullet. The…

By Ademola Olonilua


Doctors were shocked after discovering that a Singapore man’s throat discomfort was caused by an eight-legged mollusk that had become stuck in his gullet.

The unnamed patient had reportedly first realized something was awry after he started vomiting following a meal that included the cephalopod.

The diner also had trouble swallowing, prompting him to pay a visit to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, nypost.com reports. Doctors conducted a CT scan, which revealed a super-dense mass in the man’s esophagus.

A subsequent esophagogastroduodenoscopy — a gastrointestinal examination involving a small, flexible tube — showed a tentacled octopus lodged two inches from the esophagus-stomach border like something out of Ridley Scott’s “Alien.”

After initial attempts to push or extract the interloper were unsuccessful, medics navigated the endoscope past the octopus into the stomach and retroflexed it.

They then used forceps to grasp the critter’s head and remove it from the patient. Thankfully, the patient recovered well following surgery and was discharged after two days.

Apparently, food obstructions are among the most common problems encountered at the hospital, per the facility’s physicians, who say items will pass spontaneously in 80% to 90% of cases.

Meanwhile, endoscopic intervention is necessary in 10% to 20% of cases, while 1% of them require surgery.

“The ‘push technique’ is the primary method recommended with high success rates, however applying excessive force can cause esophageal perforation,” said the medical team.

Unfortunately, this is far from the first time a cephalopod has gone down the wrong pipe.

In 2016, a 2-year-old boy in Wichita, Kansas, had to be hospitalized after getting an octopus lodged in his throat during an apparent sushi session gone awry.

Meanwhile, approximately six people die a year from eating sannakji, the live octopus dish that’s a delicacy in South Korea.

Fatalities are generally caused when the suckers adhere to the sides of the diner’s throat, causing the victim to asphyxiate. This risk is heightened when the tentacles are cut longer or the critter is eaten whole, generally as part of a soju-inspired stunt.

https://dailytrust.com/doctors-stunned-sighting-octopus-in-patients-throat/

Hilarious.

Nairaland-A-Thon
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Village people octopus 🐙

Oyibo and the kind things wey dem dey chop...
Amala and ewedu no fit ever hook me for throat...🛀

Xxxxtentacion2:
Oyibo and the kind things wey dem dey chop...
Amala and ewedu no fit ever hook me for throat...🛀

Singaporean be oyinbo?

Them not go drink hot tea or coffee to kill the octopus?

slimjohn2k5:
Them not go drink hot tea or coffee to kill the octopus?

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Drink Hot Pap and Akara the Octopus go vanish straight.
Chop Hot Amala with Ewedu with Ogufe and that Octopus thing go vamose.
Carry better Apu with Ofesala and the story go change.

Abeg, who go carry me go Singapore make I go teach this people how to chop Better.

when dey eat anything that's moving 😆😆


But if it's a black man now , they'll tag it juju 😆

Damnnn niggar

When a real niggar heave a sigh of relief thinking he has heard and seen enough in this gadamnnn world then boom another shit pops up

Chineke!

This octopus will favour......

Ah who stone me for head

Orishirishi

Djd

I for one think the real reason behind octopus in that man's throat is due to head/mouth action he gave to a very beautiful woman whom unfortunately is a mermaid.

To y'all still snailing better think twice or get awarded with a living creature deep inside your esophagus.

A good example of bad and harmful traditional and cultural practices.

This act is better discarded.

Can't understand why you will be eating live octopus.

Ha! Nawa o

Swallow -Athon gone wrong

pishure...

Ooopppss

Eating Octopus is not bad.

Eating it whole is the issue.

wat im i seein

Where is the picture make I also follow them

If it had happened in India, the octopus would have still being alive , India always have extra in the own form of strange incidents

lol...hunger don make agbado person go swallow octopus

All these jerry springer like topics 🤥 I don't know if daily trust got this topic from all those tabloids 😁

Wonderment🙄

D guy de chop Octopus like crayfish

Which one is oesophagogastroduodenoscopy?? Learn to be succinct. Just say upper GI endoscopy.

A classic example of when they say;
"Na Food Go Kill You"