Bizarre Medical Discovery: Living Fly Found Inside This Man's Intestines

A guy has perplexed doctors after they discovered a fly buzzing about his intestines.

Who discovered the live fly inside a man's intestines?

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After performing a colonoscopy on the 63-year-old patient, doctors in Missouri, US, got more than they bargained for. Earlier this year, the man went to the hospital for a normal colon cancer check.

As we all know, this entails the pretty unpleasant technique of inserting a camera into the intestines to look at and make sure everything is in order.

Everything appeared to be fine until physicians noticed something unusual: an actual fly on the wall of his intestines. Stunned medics saw the totally intact insect as they reached his transverse colon.

What did the doctors do?

There is also photographic evidence of the fly relaxing inside the bloke's inside organs. To be honest, it's rather bleak.

The fly did not move when prodded, despite miraculously making its way deep into the man's body. Experts at the University of Missouri School of Medicine clearly questioned the patient to try to figure out how the fly got into his intestines.

How did the insect get in?

However, it is considered a 'mystery' because he has no idea how the insect got into his body and was fully ignorant of it. The 63-year-old had no symptoms and had only drunk clear liquids the day before his colonoscopy to empty his digestive tract.

He had, however, eaten pizza and salad the night before his 24-hour fast. Although he had no recollection of a fly in his dinner, it seemed to be the only plausible explanation for the strange bug adventure.

"This case represents a very rare colonoscopic finding," the doctors said in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

"[It is a] mystery on how the intact fly found its way to the transverse colon."

In rare instances, humans have mistakenly swallowed flies' eggs or larvae laid in fruits or vegetables. The insects had survived stomach acid and hatched in the intestines, a condition known as intestinal myiasis.

What do the experts say?

The chief of gastroenterology at the University of Missouri, Matthew Bechtold, told The Independent that he believes it entered the man's body through his mouth or rear.

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He claims that because the digestive enzymes and stomach acid should have decomposed the fly, it is 'less likely' that the patient swallowed it.

"If from the bottom, an opening must have been created long enough for the fly to fly undetected into the colon and somehow make its way to the middle part of the colon with no light in a very curvy, large intestine," Bechtold went on to say.

"However, this seems unlikely as well." The moral of this skin-crawling tale is to carefully wash your fruits and vegetables and to keep flies away from your bottom.

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