Doctors remove 13kg of faeces from constipated man in China
22-year-old diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s disease said he’d been suffering from constipation, stomach pain all his life
A Chinese man has undergone surgery in Shanghai to remove a section of his colon containing 13kg of impacted faeces, bringing to an end 22 years of pain caused by chronic constipation.
Zhou Hai, not his real name, visited the 10th People’s Hospital of Shanghai last week after complaining of severe stomach pains and struggling to breathe, news portal Thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.
Following a CAT scan, doctors diagnosed Zhou as having Hirschsprung’s disease, a rare condition that causes the colon to malfunction and can result in a build-up of faecal matter. It mainly affects babies and young children.
Zhou told doctors that he had been suffering from constipation all his life and regularly took laxatives to alleviate the discomfort, though they did not ease the pain, the report said.