At about 10 a.m. the day before yesterday, a special patient named Lin Yi, who was in his 40 s and was born in Anhui, came to Fuzhou No. 1 Hospital with his wife. He pointed to his lower body and untied his trousers. The doctor saw that a tube with a diameter of about 3mm was inserted into the urethra, only about 50cm long, and the urethral orifice was red and swollen. Lin Yige said awkwardly that in the early morning, he stuffed the plastic tube into the urethra. Unexpectedly, the deeper the tube was, the deeper the tube was retracted, and the lower body felt dull pain. Finally, he took a lot of effort to pour a small cup of urine until dawn. The urethra tingled and bleeding. He was frightened and came to see a doctor.
Brother Yi only said that the pipe was 2 meters long. When the doctor asked the reason for the pipe, brother Yi lowered his head and stopped talking. After examination, the doctor found that the plastic pipe was wrapped into a ball, occupying most of the space in Lin Yige’s bladder, and there were many blood lumps in the bladder. Brother Yi immediately lay on the operating table. After the doctor gave him local anesthesia, he tried to pull out the tube. In order to avoid damage to the urethra, the doctor decided to operate, A small hole about 2.5cm in diameter was opened in brother Lin Yi’s lower abdomen. The bladder was opened and the tube was taken out in less than half an hour. After examination, the plastic tube has little damage to the urethra and can recover after a few days of rest.
Urethral plug foreign body can cause uremia
“There are many kinds of foreign bodies inserted into the urethra”, Liu Liancheng, the deputy chief physician of urology department of the hospital, said that the hospital often receives patients with foreign bodies in the urethra or bladder, even patients with dysuria, the catheter inserted by the doctor is only 35 to 40cm long. Like brother Lin, it is really rare to insert 2 m long plastic pipes without authorization.
The doctor said that there are four types of causes of bladder and urethral foreign bodies. One is that children don’t understand and take their bodies as “toys”. The result is that they fail; The other is that they are put in maliciously; third, some patients with mental illness accidentally hurt themselves; Fourth, some adults pursue abnormal pleasure and stimulation.
Doctors remind you not to try to plug foreign bodies into the urethra, which may cause symptoms such as dysuria, hematuria, lower abdominal pain, and even dysuria. In severe cases, bladder bleeding, urethral stenosis, urinary tract infection, etc., once foreign bodies enter the bladder, for a long time, foreign body stones may be formed, the urination mechanism of bladder may be destroyed, urine countercurrent kidney, affecting renal function, and long-term untreated may lead to severe consequences such as uremia. (Haidu reporter Chen Yanyan)