Dementia Patient's Penis Starts To Rot After He Strangled It With Rubber Bands For Three Days
An elderly dementia patient in US' Illinois was hospitalized after strangling his genitals with rubber bands until his penis began to rot.
An elderly dementia patient in US' Illinois was hospitalized after strangling his own penis with rubber bands and leaving them on for three days.
The unnamed man, 81, had to undergo emergency surgery after the end of the organ started to rot, while yellow and purple patches formed at the base due to a lack of blood flow, New York Post reported.
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¡°Strangulation cases like this are thankfully rare,¡± Dr. Fardod O¡¯Kelly, a urological surgeon at Beacon Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, told the Daily Mail. The grisly case was first reported in the medical journal Urology Case Reports.
Doctors said his penis could've fallen off if the bands had been left on any longer.
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The man had initially reported to the hospital after suffering from diabetic ketoacidosis - a life threatening complication when the body runs out of insulin. It can happen when the condition is not controlled properly.
It was there that the Chicago native's wife revealed to the doctors that he had wrapped his scrotum in rubber bands and refused to remove them for three days.
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Surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Centre in the US performed an emergency operation to save his penis.
They removed dead tissue using a hot wire and scalpels. His recovery lasted five days.
He was also forced to have a catheter inserted to drain a build-up of urine because he couldn't pee while the bands were attached.
