Many children ingest or put foreign bodies into places they should not go. For example - beads in the ear, jelly beans in the nose, eating button batteries. Now, by the time you are 13, you should be past that stage. However, this 13 year old that came in recently had some issues.
Well, for whatever reason, he figured it was a good idea to stick a plastic bobby pin into his urethra! Yeowwwwch! In fact, he stuck it in so far it got lost up his penis! Not being very comfortable probing deep into a child’s urethra, my colleague called in peds urology. We thought he might have to use a cystoscope - although the thing was palpable halfway up his penile shaft. He anaesthetised the urethra with some viscous lidocaine and then was able to milk the pin far enough out and reach inside with a long nosed haemostat to grab the end.
Out it came with minimal trauma. All I can think of is the extreme discomfort most men exhibit when you have to a urethra swab for Gonorrhoea/Chlamydia. And then you only go in about a half a centimeter!
Yeowwwch! Man, that kid has some issues he has to work out with a psychiatrist!
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OUCHHHHHHH- What was he thinkin?
I really want to know how he explained the thoughts that led him to do such.
Sounding isn’t all that unusual, I mean not mainstream but not unheard of in other cultures. Too bad we don’t know what he was thinking.
I took care of a similar case - except the foreign bodies were q-tips (like 5 or 6). poor kid lost a testicle on that one.
had a guy who cut top of plastic coke bottle, inserted penis through (coke end), penis coming out top
erection,cycled of oedema, reduced v return, ischaemia > yuk
ice,sharp instruments near oedematous,ischaemic tissue..
luckily fire dept comes in with special tools
also they tell you to watch out for involuntary ejaculations that can happen
in such cases esp. scrotal “rings”
At the end of a Pathophysiology lecture on Urinary Tract disorders, my professor slaps up an X-ray of someone’s bladder. Visible inside are a set of ear bud headphones. She didn’t explain how they got there, but I imagine there’s only one way that would work…
Oh my god! I can’t begin to imagine how much that would hurt. How in the world did the kid manage to keep going through all the pain? It’s hard to think of something more painful. I’m still cringing.
Future pharmacist, maybe they had a kidney stone that they thought they could break up with radio waves……..lol.
The three most notable penile foreign bodies I’ve seen:
a) a dime (yes, apparently it stretches that much)
b) a spiral coiled cell phone antenna
and c) a bic round stic pen (in this last case, the patient claimed to have no idea why he couldn’t pee, and thought it might be related to a fall onto the crossbar of his bike a couple of days earlier. Riiiiight.)