Man, 30, suffers ‘rectal blowout’ when his bowels explode after ‘pals’ put air compressor up his backside
Doctors in New Delhi had to remove the his entire bowel after his 'perverted' friends pranked him
A MAN's bowels exploded after his "pals" put a compressed air pump into his anus and inflated it, according to a medical report.
The 30-year-old suffered "rectal blowout" after the cruel prank leaving doctors in New Delhi with no choice but to remove his entire bowel.
The injury is caused when air pressure inside the rectum rises so high that it explodes, doctors said.
While his case is extraordinary, it wasn't a one-off in the northern region of India, according to an article published in the .
Doctors from the Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh reported similar injuries in two other men.
They likened their life-changing injuries to those usually "confined to battlefields".
The report authors wrote that the air flow produced by an air compressor is at least 100 times higher than what would be considered safe for a colonoscopy - where a camera is used to check your bowels.
Perverted pals
Doctors said the man in the first case had been the subject of a prank by "perverted friends" who had put the nozzle of a tyre air pump into his anus and inflated it.
He had suffered "multiple colonic perforations" and doctors found faceal matter among his other internal organs.
The man had "complete blowout of the rectum" and needed his entire colon removed and had to have a stoma bag fitted.
In a separate case, a 34-year-old petrol pump worker suffered similar injuries when an alleged robber "thrust a compressed air nozzle into his anus" as he attempted to stop them stealing.
He too had sustained a rectal blowout and needed most of his colon removed before a colostomy bag was fitted.
Life-changing injuries
The third case reported that a 24-year-old man went to A&E with an "alleged history of accidental injury to the anus by compressed air jet".
He told doctors the air nozzle was placed about 25cm (9.8in) from anus for less than a second.
Doctors say he had a swollen, painful abdomen and an examination showed it was covered in blood and faeces.
The man had to have part of his intestine removed and also needed a colostomy.
Dr Lovenish Bains, who led the study, said: "Education regarding such machines and their safe use must be encouraged because most of these cases are accidental and due to ignorance."
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The expert explained that injuries can vary from ulceration to "full-thickness blowout", depending on the air pressure and distance between the source and anus.
They added that air could be as damaging as a solid object as highly-pressurised air can "form a column that acts like a solid body, forcing open the anal sphincter."
"It takes only one or two seconds to deliver enough pressurised air to cause major damage," they added.
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