He goes to the doctor because his voice is hoarse and what he discovers shocks him

Suddenly, one morning he woke up and his voice became hoarse. She had too A little pain but not sharp enough to scare him. So he didn’t give it much thought and continued his day as usual.

But things, not because they had been ignored, would have improved. The hoarseness and pain now continued with greater intensity. However, he only really got scared when He started spitting blood.

However, the man, originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, I didn’t go to the doctor right away. Instead he tried to identify the cause himself, opening his mouth and looking in the mirror.

But I couldn’t see much more than what looked like a brown mass at the top of his throat. Which, of course, he couldn’t identify.

The man panicked and now he went directly for treatment at the National Hospital of Endocrinology in Hanoi.

Already in the hospital the doctors, after listening to the symptoms that the man had described to them, sent him for treatment. will perform an endoscopy to determine what might happen.

What the endoscopy found left the man stunned. The study revealed that inside his throat there were a leech 6 cm long that sucked blood. He was firmly attached under the glottis, near the trachea.

Such findings are not unheard of (there was another similar case, also in Vietnam, that made headlines in 2019 for the same reason), but They are considered extremely rare.

Leeches usually manage to enter the human body due to lack of proper hygiene. In this particular case, the 53-year-old man told doctors about a month ago he had suffered an injury in his hand while handling a mousetrap.

Fervent believer in Shennong herbal medicinehe went out and collected medicinal plants, put them in his mouth and chewed them until they formed a paste which he applied to the wound.

His hand was fine, but doctors believe that when he healed it unwashed leaves in the mouth, allowed a small leech to access his body. They are usually small, but constantly feeding on blood, they grow very quickly.

The man removed the small animal without major complications and is now recovering satisfactorily. The doctors had warned him It could have been much more serious. He was lucky. And they warned him not to put unwashed leaves in his mouth. Let’s hope he learned his lesson.