Doctors found a live fly in the patient's colon (4 photos)

In the USA, an elderly man came for a routine examination. During a colonoscopy, doctors were extremely surprised: there was a live fly in the colon





An American who came for a colonoscopy surprised doctors with an unusual finding in the intestines during the procedure. Metro reports this.

A 63-year-old man from Missouri, USA, came to the hospital for a preventative colonoscopy. The doctors began an examination, which proceeded as usual until they reached the transverse colon, where they found an anomaly. A live buzzing fly caught the camera lens. Doctors call its appearance in the intestines a mystery.



The patient subsequently reported that he did not experience any symptoms or abdominal pain. He also didn't eat anything unusual the day before. Before the procedure, he consumed only liquids as prescribed by the doctor, and the day before he ate pizza and a green salad that did not contain flies.

The unusual case led doctors to publish an article in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, in which they called the fly “a rare gastroenteroscopic find.”



It is known that in rare cases, flies and their larvae can enter the human intestine, causing a condition called intestinal myiasis. This happens after eating food with eggs and fly larvae. In rare cases, eggs can survive stomach acid and hatch and then grow inside the body.