KUALA LUMPUR: HEALTH-TECH – Man’s rectum slips out of anus after sitting on toilet for 30 minutes, playing mobile phone game

KUALA LUMPUR: A Chinese man’s rectum slipped out of his anus after half an hour of sitting on his toilet seat, playing a game on his mobile phone.

It’s a rare condition called ‘prolapsed rectum’, in which the tip of the large intestine becomes detached from inside the body.

In the case of the man, his rectum slipped out of his anus and was hanging outside like a “boxing speedball”.

He told doctors at the Zhongshan city hospital that he had been playing mobile games while trying to have a bowel movement for more than half an hour.

He was rushed to the hospital at midnight last week.

Doctors at the hospital said that he had a pained look on his face and was leaning on his friends, as he was unable to walk by himself.

After assessing the situation, doctors warded the man and ran a CT scan on his abdominal area to eliminate the possibility of him dying from loss of blood or necrosis, before they performed an operation.

According to the hospital, the man had not cultivated proper defecating habits.

“He also had the modern-day habit of sitting on the toilet for a long time while playing with his phone. It’s because of the long-term habit of sitting on the toilet for long periods of time that create great pressure on the abdomen, eventually resulting in rectal prolapses that progressively got worse,” the hospital said.

The exact cause of this relatively uncommon condition, which affects about two out of every 100,000 people in the world, is unclear.

However, certain factors like loose muscles that control the release of stool, previous injury to the anal or pelvic areas, chronic constipation or straining during bowel movements, and infections with intestinal worms may play a role.

Rectal prolapse is more common in women than men, especially women over age 50, but it can occur in younger adults and children as well. – SAYS.COM