#头条创作挑战赛#
Proctology doctors can always encounter all kinds of patients who get strange things stuck in the rectum, but one incident in recent days has opened the eyes of gastroenterology doctors.
On July 7, a Singaporean man, who asked not to be named, was taken to the emergency room. The man vomited repeatedly and had difficulty swallowing, he thought that he had eaten something bad and had food poisoning, but the doctor observed that the problem was not this.
The doctor arranged a CT scan for the man to see what was inside his stomach. The CT film showed a large shadow in the man's esophagus, like a very strong lump.
Because it is impossible to determine what the lump in his esophagus is just by looking at medical images, the doctor recommends duodenoscopy as soon as possible to avoid more health risks caused by esophageal blockage for too long.
The doctor used a long tube with a camera to slowly extend from his mouth to the duodenum. As the camera slowly moved, the images came that surprised the doctor. The thing that blocked the man's esophagus turned out to be a whole eight-clawed octopus!
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The octopus's head was down, stuck at the junction of the esophagus and stomach, and all eight tentacles were stretched out, blocking the man's esophagus. This is why the man eats what he eats and vomits in the past few days - what he eats is blocked by the octopus and can hardly reach the stomach, and can only "return the same way".
Doctors said they had never seen a whole octopus stuck in a human body, and when the duodenoscopy photographed it, everyone was shocked. After all, what should have been in the sea now appears completely in the human body, and the whole picture is very Cthulhu. That psychological shadow area, boss.
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In the case of a foreign body in the esophagus and the foreign body is rounded, the most common treatment is to use an endoscope to push this mass from the esophagus into the patient's stomach. However, after trying several times, the doctor found that the tentacles of the octopus were larger than the head, and they could not press it down.
If the push is too strong, it can lead to a perforation of the patient's esophagus, and the doctor has to try to pull the octopus out of his mouth completely. He continued to extend the endoscope down, around the octopus into the patient's stomach, and then bent the endoscope upwards to pull the octopus out of the esophagus.
Finally, the doctor was clamping the octopus with tweezers and completely dragging him out. Fortunately, the man recovered well and recovered after 2 days in the hospital, without causing significant damage to the body. As for why there is such a big octopus in his belly...
He said that at lunch, he had this uncut octopus in a dish. He probably ate too wolf-eating and not chewing much, causing the octopus to be blocked in his body like a red wine bottle stopper.
But fortunately, the octopus he ate was cooked, not alive, otherwise I am afraid that this would not be a problem that can be solved by two or three days of first aid.
According to statistics, an average of six people will suffocate to death every year from eating live octopus.
There is a traditional Korean delicacy - 산낙지 Korean live octopus, which tastes different and is famous all over the world because of the large number of deaths, it is regarded as one of the "world's most dangerous foods".
The production method of live octopus is very simple, after washing the fresh octopus, removing the bad parts, cutting everything in the other parts, sprinkling with sesame oil and sesame seeds, and dipping in the sauce is a dish.
In the beginning, Koreans liked to eat live octopus because it was less likely to eat bad stomach than other raw foods, and it was delicious and refreshing to eat, so many people liked to use it as a drink dish in summer.
However, octopus and sashimi are not the same.
Theoretically, these octopuses are dead after being chopped, but octopuses have an extremely rich nervous system, and two-thirds of neurons are located in the tentacles, even if their heads are cut off, their tentacles are still twisting around in the plate, and the suction cups on the tentacles are still active, no different from when they were alive.
Therefore, when many people eat live octopus, they are very easy to be sucked by the suction cups on the tentacles to suck the mouth, tongue, and even they will suck on the throat after swallowing, and the adsorption force may be so strong that it completely blocks the circulation of air and makes people suffocate to death.
In fact, one of the reasons to add sesame oil when making this dish is also to increase the lubrication of the octopus, so that people are not so easy to be attracted by it when eating. The restaurant also no longer offers whole live octopus tentacles, but tries to cut them into small pieces. But even so, deaths occur every year.
Two years ago, a 71-year-old Incheon man ordered live octopus at a restaurant. But while eating, he complained to two other friends who ate together, saying that his breathing was not smooth, and soon the man fainted due to lack of oxygen.
Imagine that this is not the same as choking on something, not two pats on the back, a few hard coughs, or using the Heimlich First Aid method to defuse the crisis. Although the restaurant staff called an ambulance in time, the man had died of suffocation by the time the medical staff arrived.
Now it seems that after swallowing the octopus, the tentacles must have been sucked in his throat, and may even be squirming in his throat. It's so scary to think about.
In 2010, there was also a more famous case of death from eating octopus. A South Korean man bought two ready-made live octopuses and ate them with his girlfriend at a hotel in Incheon. That night, a hospital in Seoul received an emergency call saying that his girlfriend had suddenly fainted after eating a live octopus and was now breathless.
The woman was taken to hospital for 16 days of resuscitation and treatment, but was eventually pronounced dead. At first, the South Korean police quickly defined the incident as an accident, after all, it is not uncommon for people to die from eating live octopus.
But five months later, the father of the deceased woman discovered that his daughter had purchased life insurance before her death, and that her boyfriend was the only beneficiary, and that she had received a high premium of 200 million won (about 1.11 million yuan) after the death of her girlfriend.
So the father suspected that his daughter's boyfriend deliberately gave his daughter dangerous food and created an accident to cheat insurance.
At one point, the man was even sentenced by a court to life imprisonment for murder. But he appealed and insisted that it was all an accident, and in the end, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the man's guilty conviction due to insufficient direct and indirect evidence, and reclassified the matter as an accident.
The families of the women who died also accepted the final verdict, but for them, the unexpected death of their daughter is indeed difficult to let go.
Chopping up a live octopus can cause suffocation, not to mention what happens if you swallow an entire octopus alive. In the past, Korea did not have the tradition of eating a whole live octopus, after all, it was too fatal, and the ancients were not fools.
However, with the development of the times, more and more people regard swallowing a live octopus alive as a fun and curious activity. One of the reasons driving this trend is the famous Korean movie "Old Boy".
After the male protagonist Wu Daxiu played by Choi Min-shik in the movie was released from prison, he asked the restaurant lady to give him a plate of live octopus, and the lady wanted to help him chop it, but Daxiu grabbed the octopus, tore off its head and stuffed it into his mouth.
In the film, the tentacles of the octopus struggle in the male protagonist's mouth, constantly crawling towards his lips and nose, grabbing his face to climb up, but are eventually devoured by the male protagonist (in order to show his hatred of being wrongfully imprisoned).
It is said that when filming this scene, Choi Min-shik suffered a great crime and swallowed four live octopuses in a row, and it was really lucky that there was no accident.
It may be because the masculinity shown by this movie makes many people envious. After that, some Korean food festivals encourage people to eat octopus. Many diners will really stuff the whole octopus into their mouth to show their boldness.
Later, some food bloggers also liked to eat a whole live octopus raw in order to attract attention. The previous video of South Korean blogger Ssoyoung eating live octopus made many people call horror. After she ate the octopus's head first, the octopus's tentacles crawled on her face.
A Chinese food broadcast blogger was once held half of his face by an octopus because he ate live octopus live. She frantically tears the octopus in the video, but the force of the suction cup is too great, and she struggles to shout "It hurts!" "Can't take it down!" ”。
When the octopus was finally pulled down, a piece of her skin was pulled off, and there were blood marks on her face.
This way of eating is tantamount to making jokes about your own life, imagine the horror of such a strong suction attached to your esophagus, completely cutting off the circulation of air and oxygen being taken away little by little. Such behavior is both dangerous and cruel, here is a reminder to everyone, don't try, don't think about it, it's really dangerous!
If you definitely want to try Korean-style live octopus, remember to eat only chopped ones, and be sure to chew slowly, chew thoroughly, chew the suction cup before swallowing.
Of course, no matter what you eat, gobbling is not good, which not only affects digestion, but also easily blocks the esophagus. Let's not let food become a burden on health...