08/04/2021 12:06
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Updated 08/04/2021 12:06
The medical team that was performing a colonoscopy on a 59-year-old man, of all the things they could have found inside the man's intestine, would never have imagined they had found
a living host inside, a San Antonio vaquita.
Although the finding could have remained a funny anecdote, he has ended up opening a study in ACG Case Reports Journal, to find out how the San Antonio vaquita may have reached the intestine
completely intact and alive.
The San Antonio vaquita lives in the intestine (ACG Case Reports Journal).
Through colonoscopy, doctors can detect evidence of many diseases, and to carry it out it is important that the patient
fast
until after the procedure and purge so that the intestine is as clean as possible when performing it.
How do I get there?
This finding opens up two questions for researchers:
How did it get there?
and,
How could it survive
inside the human body? The first hypothesis suggests that probably the vaquita of San Antonio slipped
while the man slept.
How did the vaquita de San Antonio come to enter the man's body?
While the question of how it was able to survive inside the human body, reaching such a late stage of the digestive process looking so fresh, is probably due to
the accelerated journey through the intestines
, facilitated by a viscous substance that induces to feces.
"His preparation for the colonoscopy may have helped the insect escape digestive enzymes in the stomach and upper small intestine," the researchers explained in the study.
Previous studies show that live cockroaches have even been found during colonoscopies.
Although it is highly unlikely that a living insect will sneak into our body to reach the intestines, the case of the San Antonio vaquita is not an isolated event.
Previous studies show that live cockroaches have even been found during colonoscopies.
The vanguard.
GML
