{"id":122802,"date":"2023-11-24T02:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/24\/doctors-find-living-fly-in-mans-intestines-during-colonoscopy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T02:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T02:18:34","slug":"doctors-find-living-fly-in-mans-intestines-during-colonoscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/24\/doctors-find-living-fly-in-mans-intestines-during-colonoscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Find Living Fly in Man\u2019s Intestines During Colonoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>Doctors in Missouri got the shock of their lives during a routine colonoscopy when they came across a fully developed fly living in the patient\u2019s traverse colon.<\/p>\n<p>The American Journal of Gastroenterology recently published the bizarre case of a 63-year-old man who had a fly living inside his intestines. The man had shown up for a routine colon cancer screening earlier this year, and doctors at a Missouri hospital conducted a colonoscopy \u2013 a procedure where a camera is inserted into the intestines to check for any abnormalities. And that is exactly what the physicians found while exploring the patient\u2019s traverse colon \u2013 the area at the top of the large intestine. \u2013 an intact fly that had somehow survived the gastric acid and was chilling inside the man\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79991 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\"\/><span id=\"more-79990\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/black-fly-on-white-surface-N4AFGRPZGk4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Curry\/Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding,\u201d doctors wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/ajg\/citation\/2023\/10000\/to_be_a_fly_on_the_wall__a_mysterious_finding_on.7.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Journal of Gastroenterology<\/a>. \u201cIt is a mystery how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although no one truly knows how the fly ended up inside the man\u2019s intestines, it is a known fact that fly larvae laid in fruits and vegetables can sometimes survive our stomach acid and then hatch in our intestines. However, the patient had only consumed clear liquids the day before the colonoscopy, as per the doctor\u2019s recommendation. The day before his 24-hour fast, he had eaten pizza and lettuce but did not recall seeing a fly or anything else in his food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3Dpfbid02n92N9qppwKA4R85HYR4s9hicSvv5xA6u67xWv8QGYJYLkQLBvWA5Us6Me1yTN78vl%26id%3D100094106853507&amp;width=700&amp;show_text=false&amp;appId=279842835470946&amp;height=367\" width=\"700\" height=\"367\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fly did not move when prodded by the doctors, but photos captured by the camera clearly show that it is intact.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"e20b7298d1cf1f479235a685-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {<\/p>\n<p>  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];<\/p>\n<p>  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;<\/p>\n<p>  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;<\/p>\n<p>  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=665932603465761\";<\/p>\n<p>  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<\/p>\n<p>}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Missouri got the shock of their lives during a routine colonoscopy when they came across a fully developed fly living in the patient\u2019s traverse colon. 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