13 Bizarre Medical Cases That Will Make You Cringe

Seeing a doctor is always a nerve-racking experience, and more so when one is rushed with an unusual condition. It's an equally baffling situation for doctors who have no clue about the things they are witnessing. Here are some of the most bizarre cases reported by doctors that will make you cringe.

1. A fish tooth in the eyeball

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A 52-year-old went swimming in the Red Sea and was got a fish tooth stuck in his eye. It happened after he swam through a large school of fish. The fish jaws caused the man's eyelid to droop because "the beaks (sic) of the fish immobilised the muscles that move the eyelid and the eye ball upward," Lagr¨¨ze told Live Science.

2. Long worms coming out from the skin

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This strange medical condition called, Dracunculiasis, affected people across Rajasthan in the 1980s. The disease was caused by consumption of contaminated water.

3. Armpit hair Infection

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Yes, there is something like that. The condition starts with a permanent body odour over a long period and snowballs into an infection in the armpits caused by the bacteria called Corynebacterium tenuis.

4. Parasitic worm infection

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A 43-year-old man in Qatar suffered from a parasitic worm infection that caused a "calcified bladder". According to Lice Science, he had blood in his urine and pain when he peed for over a month.

5. Urinating living winged beetles

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Don't believe it? It actually happened with a 13-year-old girl in India. She had the beetle eggs hatching in a fistula near the groin. The condition is called Myiasis.

6. Sudoku seizures

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Yes, that can happen with too much Sudoku. A German man completed so many Sudoku puzzles that it caused him to have seizures. The condition caused the man to develop sudden muscle twitches around his mouth when he talked and in the muscles of his legs when he walked, reports Live Science.

7. An earring in the lungs

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A woman in Australia accidentally inhaled a earring at a New Year's Eve party and the earring scratched the back of the woman's throat, made her cough up blood, before getting stuck in her lungs!

8. Kids in Bihar who look like old people

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The condition called Progeria, or rapid ageing syndrome makes kids look 8 times their age. 1 in 8 million people suffer from this condition, and a couple in Bihar have 5 children who suffer from it.

9. Pornography headaches

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It¡¯s an irony of sorts, but a man in India complained of headaches every time he watched porn. According to Live Science, "some people develop a sudden headache at the point of orgasm. The headache will emerge slowly as sexual arousal heightens."

10. Wound caused by a Dying Kitten

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A 17-year-old developed a blackened wound on her wrist after picking up the dying kitten from a ditch. The large, open wound was caused by the cowpox virus ¨C a virus so rare that many doctors have never come across it.

11. Hairy eyeballs

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The images are sure to haunt you, it¡¯s a rare condition where people have hair growing out of their eyeballs. It¡¯s a tumour that can occur anywhere in the body but are most infamous for growing on the eyeball. The tumour has stem cells, which causes it to grow hair.

12. Permanent hunger

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A six-year-old girl was always hungry because the part of her brain that communicates when one was full was missing. It¡¯s a rare congenital disorder characterised by a voracious appetite, which causes the person to be constantly hungry.

13. Stone man's disease

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Known as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), Stone Man¡¯s Disease is when the bone tissue begins to grow where muscles, tendons, and other connective tissues should be. There have only been 800 confirmed cases, and there is no known cure or treatment for it.