YOU'VE heard of sneezing your head off, or at least sneezing yourself a stroke (PD 03 Mar), but what about sneezing your guts out?
This literally happened to a 63-year-old man, who sneezed out his intestines through a surgical wound.
The man had received surgery two weeks earlier to remove his bladder, with the incision sealed with staples, according to the case study published in the American Journal of Medical Case Reports.
Celebrating the removal of the staples with a non-hospital breakfast later that morning,the man let out a forceful sneeze while coughing, and reportedly felt a "wet" sensation and pain in his lower abdomen.
When he looked down, the report continued, he saw "several loops of pink bowel" sticking out of his surgical wounds.
Unsure what to do next, the man covered his intestines with his shirt and debated driving himself to hospital.
Happily, commonsense in the form of his wife prevailed, and an ambulance was called.
The man's bowels remained intact throughout all this and he was otherwise doing well by the time he arrived at the emergency room, where three surgeons worked to manoeuvre the intestines back into their usual position.
His recovery went smoothly and he was discharged six days later.
His final diagnosis was a case of evisceration, also known as disembowelment.
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