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How’d That Get There?

A two centimeter fish found it’s way into a 14-year-old boy’s penis and no, it’s not one of those weird African fish that swims up your urine stream.

The young Indian boy claims that he was holding the fish while cleaning it’s tank when he realized that he needed to use the toilet. While urinating, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra.

He soon developed symptoms of pain, difficulty in voiding with dribbling urine and developed acute urinary retention.

The medical conclusion:

“Introduction of foreign bodies into the bladder may be through self-insertion, iatrogenic means or migration from adjacent organs. Extraction should be tailored according to the nature of the foreign body and should minimize bladder and urethral trauma. Complete extraction should also be confirmed by panendoscopy at the end of the extraction procedure. The possibility of an intravenous foreign body should be considered in any patient with chronic unexplained lower urinary tract symptoms.”

I’m sure this is a common complaint from most patients though as dropping a fish down your pee-hole happens all the time.

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