Doctors save life of constipated man in China after removing 13kg of faeces-filled colon


A doctor holding the portion of colon removed from Zhou Hai, which measured 76cm long and weighed 13kg. PHOTO: SHANGHAI TENTH PEOPLE's HOSPITAL.

SHANGHAI: Doctors were forced to remove 13kg of faeces stored in the colon of a man who was suffering from a rare bowel condition last Thursday.

Zhou Hai, 22, had arrived at the Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital with his belly so bloated that witnesses said he looked like he was heavily pregnant.

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