15-07-2025
Man, 22, discovers a WORM wriggling around inside his penis after trip to the beach
A MAN was left with a worm squirming under the skin of his penis after a trip to the beach.
The 22-year-old from Colombo, Sri Lanka, went to a sexual health clinic with an itchy, snake-like rash on his manhood that had been there for a week.
He told medics he'd been lying on a nearby beach with bare skin touching the sand days earlier.
Doctors at St Mary's Community Health Campus in Portsmouth reported the case in the BMJ journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections, describing a raised, red rash about 5cm long along the top of his penis.
They diagnosed him with cutaneous larva migrans (CLM), a skin infection caused by tiny worm larvae that burrow just beneath the skin.
Known as a creeping infection, CLM causes itchy red lines that snake across the skin as the larvae move.
The larvae come from hookworms found in the poop of animals like dogs, cats, and cows.
CLM is common in tropical places like Sri Lanka, especially when skin is exposed to contaminated soil or sand.
The larvae usually infect the soles of the feet, as they are the parts of the body most in contact with the ground.
If left untreated, the rash can get infected, causing painful redness, swelling, and even pus-filled sores.
Scratching only makes it worse and risks serious skin infections needing antibiotics.
The lad was treated with a three-day course of oral albendazole and the rash cleared up within a week.
Worms
Although genital cases are rare, doctors say it's important to act quickly and prescribe anti-worm medication.
"Travellers to tropical beaches need to take precautions to avoid these unfavorable incidents," the authors wrote.
If you're heading to tropical beaches this summer, avoid bare skin contact with sand by wearing shoes and sitting on a towel or mat.
This simple step stops larvae from burrowing under your skin and causing painful, creeping rashes, according to
The weirdest things found inside the human body – from a fly buzzing around a man's gut to a coconut and deodorant can
IT is not unusual for doctors to find random objects inside people's bodies.
Whether they are inhaled by accident, inserted for erotic pleasure or as a means to try and solve a health problem like constipation, doctors see it all.
Medics recently found a fully intact fly buzzing around a man's intestines.
Meanwhile, a lady in Taiwan recently made the news because a live spider and its discarded outer shell were found inside her ear.
Spiders crawling inside the body are rare; those with arachnophobia will be pleased to hear.
While the person giving a home to a spider had little choice, others accidentally inhale objects, while some even purposely stick things up themselves.
A 2021 study found the vast majority - a whopping 88 per cent - of people attending A&E with this complaint are men.
Some of these have included apples, an aubergine, a brush, pens, carrots, a deodorant can and pesticide containers.
Inhaling objects is one of the most common causes of death in children under three.
Some of the most commonly inhaled objects include coins, toys or magnets, peanuts, and even hot dogs.
In one bizarre case published in Dove Press, doctors in Africa found a leech stuck in a little girl's throat, which was later safely removed.
A postman from Preston, England, inhaled a Playmobil road cone as a child, but it was only discovered when the 47-year-old had his lungs scanned when he presented with a persistent cough.
In another odd case, a man inhaled a pea, which was in place long enough for it to begin to sprout in his respiratory tract.
