Gross!

Excerpted:

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"A 52-year-old woman with a history of depression was referred by her primary physician for colorectal cancer screening. She had no family history of colorectal cancer and a review of systems was positive for abdominal bloating.

Bowel preparation was done using 4 L of polyethylene glycol the evening prior to screening colonoscopy. The procedure was uncomplicated with no gross mucosal pathology, however, an insect was found in the transverse colon on a routine screening colonoscopy.

The insect was aspirated and sent to the lab for further identification. The insect had three body segments (head, thorax, and abdomen) with ventrodorsal flattening of the body and a segmented abdomen, three pairs of legs extending from the thorax (with spikes and claw-like terminal appendages), elongated hind legs, and a pair of elongated antennae extending from the head to beyond the hind legs.

These morphologic findings were most consistent with the nymph form of Blattella germanica (German cockroach) of the Blattellidae family, a common household pest.

The patient had a cockroach infestation at home and hence it was hypothesized that she may have inadvertently ingested a cockroach with food."
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SFW article with pic of the pesky colon-invader here: blogs.discovermagazine.c…

that would be a pain in the ass

I'm a long section of intestine?

Lulz, David.

Richard Gere probably got off on that article.

You'd think, right, Bobby? Then again...they predict those little bastards will survive the apocalypse.

*shudder*

I don't know what is worse. Finding something like that or having it make the news! So I guess the body doesn't digest roaches ? Or did it come in through the back door ? Things to ponder on a cold afternoon.

So basically cockroaches can survive stomach acid?

Her booty bug, I hope to NEVER catch it.

cockroaches are in biology terms a 'crowbar' speices. After the next WW (WWIII) there'll be cats, rats and cockroaches running around.

Same here Janice, ewwwwww, now my lentils don't look the same!

is this a "thats why u should give up the butt" story?

I read this as:
Oral things you want in your colon.

I need to go back to my thread where asshole was on the menu.

Wow!

It made it PAST her stomach acids?
(thats one f ing cockroach!)

I used to work for a surgical center a few years back.
During a routine colonoscopy on a woman who had just returned from India, the doctor had noticed a movement on the bottom of the screen.
When we zoomed into the area he noticed it was a worm.
Worms are fairly the norm for those who visit third world countries however the length of the worm was not.
After removing the tape worm in was 2 feet in length.
When the doc pulled it out I threw up twice.

I am too scared to clicky on that link.  You can't unsee things.

Thank you Ana for not having pictures.      [throws up once]

4 LITERS of polyethylene glcol?

That is a whole hell of a lot.

dayyam, scary. Ive been to many 3rd world countries and have never had a scare. isnt it common sense to take precautions!?

You guys just made my hotdog real unappetizing...

Motherfucker

I wonder how big it was when she ingested it.

I don't want anything in my colon. Thanks.

Ana, OMG. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Joseph: Yes. There are most definitely ways of protecting yourself, however this woman said they would bathe in the local river (for spiritual purposes?) where the rest of the town would also poop and pee.
They also used this river as a source of drinking water....double barf!

You know granny was playing the Richard Gere gerbil game and just decided to get freaky with it...

Crypsin: ahahahahahah

@ana - yikes, poor lady

as for the old lady in the OP, whatever, they found a dead roach she accidentally ate in a roach infested house. now if it had been alive and she lived in the arctic, that would be an interesting story.

The worm looked like one extra long linguine. I swear to you!
Again referring back to my thread...

how do you like my new avatar Barf?
Sexy huh?

What did you guys think of when you say the last thing on the list?  Cockroach definitely wasn't even on my list.  Barbed wire was, broken test tube was, bowling pin was.  Let's all share.

banana...

This is not good lunch time reading.

Brush on Barf.
Brush on.

imagine finding that in someones colon!

If she had a big rig jammed up there would it be...  (wait... for... it...) a semicolon?

the last comment on the article makes a good case that this is a fake.

I'm not clicking the link.. I'm having my pasta carbonara.
Still how can a cockroach make it past her stomach...
Worms and parasites like them, are built to get past the stomach acids...
A fully intact cockroach from the kitchen is not.
I agree with Al... above.

Oh that, pfft,  my colon has roach parking right next to the bus parking.

JöHnNy "Society of the Neat Ladies, Officer Cochino" A. says:

I'm not clicking the link.. I'm having my pasta carbonara.
Still how can a cockroach make it past her stomach...
Worms and parasites like them, are built to get past the stomach acids...
A fully intact cockroach from the kitchen is not.
I agree with Al... above.

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only one way to really know, let us know how it goes.

Also, doesn't the bitch chew, fer cryin' out loud? The cockroach was INTACT.

So like, intact.  Valeria notes t"deosn't the bitch chew".  Someone else noted that the stomach acids and the like would eat the damned thing.  

But what if it didn't go that way.  Maybe it crawled up her butt...  or she put it up there, all Richard Gere style?  Maybe she put a bunch of them up there at once, like hundreds, and the wiggled and jigled and iggled inside her, and then one poor bastard got suck?

and by suck I mean stuck and by deosn't i mean dosen't and god i need more sleep.

this is why its important to chew your food thoroughly. You wanna crush any live critters in there.

Thanks for the vivid mental picture, Mike!

*bleurgh!*

I think it crawled up her but.  Stomach acid has a ph of 2.

butt

i threw up today and the acid was pretty nasty. burned a layer off of my teeth enamel. i don't think a cockroach would have survived anyone's stomach acid intact.

Poor Kiwi.

When a kiwi throws up is it like a fruit cocktail or something?

Or a baby rabbit.  I wouldn't want that up my butt either.

Mike "correlation does not prove causation" D. says:

If she had a big rig jammed up there would it be...  (wait... for... it...) a semicolon?
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I would hate to think what an exclamation mark would be!

Joseph G. says:

@ana - yikes, poor lady

as for the old lady in the OP

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haha, I doubt 52 qualifies as "old".