LONDON: In a bizarre incident in the UK, a teenager got a USB cable stuck inside his penis while attempting to measure the interior of his genitals, in such a way that physicians had to surgically remove it.
The 15-year-old British boy was trying to measure the interior of his private parts in an unusual type of 'sexual experimentation,' when the cable tangled itself into knots and he was unable to remove it.
When knots and tangles formed in the cable, the boy began to experience blood in his urine, after which his mother had to rush him to the hospital.
The boy admitted to the attending physicians that he had purposefully inserted the cable instead of using a ruler to measure, after his mother had left the room.
Doctors wrote in a Science Direct report, "The two distal ports of the USB wire were found to be protruding from the external urethral meatus whilst the middle part of the knotted wire remained within the urethra. The patient was an otherwise fit and healthy adolescent with no history of mental health disorders."
The tangle and number of knots in the cable reportedly made it impossible for doctors to cut it with a metal cutter, so they had to conduct an operation.
An insertion was made between his genitals and anus to allow access to the trapped cable, with catheters fitted for body waste removal.
Doctors explained, "Both ends of the wire were pulled out successfully through the external urethral meatus."
The boy then made a full recovery and was later released from hospital. A week later, the catheters were removed. He is now being monitored for long-term effects.
This case study warns people that putting foreign objects into the urethra can induce urination pain, blood in the urine, painful erections, and urine retention.
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