Shocked surgeons have removed a gigantic three-foot-long python-shaped poo from a woman who complained of being constipated for years.
The desperate 53-year-old patient – identified only as Hua – begged medics at Zhejiang University First Hospital, eastern China, for help to relieve the agony.
She told them the pain from her heavily bloated stomach had become so great that she could barely get out of bed, report local media.
Hua had been suffering from constipation for years but turned to doctors after ten days of unbearable agony that could not be relieved with laxatives.
Local media report that she arrived at the hospital with a hugely bloated gut that made her look pregnant.
And the pressure inside her body had caused tightness in her chest and made it difficult for Hua to breathe.
Worried family members urged her to get help when they could feel her rock-hard stools by simply touching her belly, according to local media.
Doctors examined Hua and found there was a massive logjam of faecal matter – some the size of a volleyball.
Her intestines had expanded to a point where they were pressing hard against the liver, stomach, small intestine and other organs.
Doctors diagnosed her with Hirschsprung’s disease, a birth defect which caused underdeveloped intestinal nerve cells.
The condition causes poo to move very slowly or get blocked completely inside the intestines, according to reports.
In an emergency op, surgeons removed an amazing 44 lbs (20 kilogrammes) body of hardened faecal matter that they said resembled a three-foot-long python, according to hospital reports.
Relieved Hua is said to be recovering.
