Doctors were stunned after acupuncture needles were found during an X-ray of a boy’s penis.
       Doctors made the painful discovery after examining an 11-year-old boy who was struggling to urinate.
       Unable to explain the boy’s pain, he was taken to the Jiangxi Children’s Hospital in central China’s Jiangxi province to have an X-ray taken.
       After the scan, doctors were shocked to find that an 8cm needle had been inserted into his penis, which had pushed a tube into his bladder, reports the Mirror.
       An undated x-ray showing a needle being inserted through a boy’s urethra in Nanchang, China. Needle removal at the Children’s Hospital of Jiangxi Province
       After the scan, the doctors were shocked to find that an 8 cm needle had been inserted into his penis, which had pushed through the bladder tube.
       After questioning the boy, he admitted that he inserted the needle into his urethra because “he was bored” and wanted to see if it would work.
       Chief Medical Officer Rao Pinde said the boy had a needle inserted 12 hours before he was found, leaving him unable to urinate.
       When his penis began to hurt, he called for help but did not admit what he had done and was taken to the operating room where the needle was removed in a non-invasive procedure using an endoscope to locate the needle.
       X-rays showed that an 87mm sewing needle was located in the urethra of a 10-year-old Iranian boy in such a way that attempting to remove it could cause further damage.
       Last year, a 10-year-old boy had a twix-length sewing needle removed from his penis after it got stuck in his urethra.
       An unnamed child from Iran was rushed to the hospital after a 9 cm object was stuffed inside and tried to get it out for more than three hours.
       Doctors who treated the boy said that he first inserted a needle into the urethra, through which urine and semen flow.
       It’s unclear why he did this, but doctors pointed to a number of possible reasons, including curiosity, pleasure, or a brief psychological episode.
       The journal Urology Case Reports revealed a few details about the events.
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