Eye-watering images released by a hospital in China show a man with a bottle lodged in his anus.
The stomach-churning pictures reveal in excruciating detail the plight of a 60-year-old from Zhuhai, in the Guangdong Province of China.
The desperate patient, who has not been named, claimed he was suffering from constipation and tried to stimulate himself with the bottle, doctors said.
Having stuffed the whole object inside, he was then unable to remove it.
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This x-ray image went viral after being shared by colleagues in the hospital - luckily for the elderly man, his personal details have been kept hidden
