Doctors at a private Delhi hospital successfully removed a moisturiser bottle lodged in a young woman’s intestine using sigmoidoscopy, avoiding surgical intervention.
The 27-year-old patient had inserted the bottle into her private parts out of sexual curiosity, where it became trapped.
Following the incident, the woman experienced abdominal pain and hadn’t passed stool for two days before being brought to the hospital’s emergency department. Upon questioning, she admitted inserting the bottle two days prior for sexual gratification.
According to Hindi daily Amar Ujala’s report, the patient initially visited a local hospital where doctors attempted but failed to remove the object. An abdominal X-ray subsequently revealed the bottle lodged in the upper rectal region. Given the risk of intestinal perforation and her deteriorating condition, she was urgently referred for nighttime surgical evaluation.
The medical team comprising Dr Tarun Mittal, Dr Ashish Dey, Dr Anmol Ahuja, Dr Shreyas Manglik, and anaesthetist Dr Prashant Agrawal performed the procedure. Using sigmoidoscopy, they successfully extracted the intact bottle without requiring abdominal incisions – a minimally invasive approach that reduced postoperative pain and accelerated recovery.
The patient was discharged the following day after showing significant improvement. Dr Ahuja emphasised the critical importance of timely intervention in such cases to prevent life-threatening bowel perforation. “Endoscopic techniques like sigmoidoscopy and laparoscopy allow safe management of such foreign bodies,” he noted.