A Japanese man died from kidney failure three years after putting a stick of eyeliner up his backside.
The unnamed patient, who was in his 60s, was rushed to the hospital after his brother found him unconscious at home.
A CT scan revealed a 3.5-inch long tube of eyeliner near his rectum, which doctors believe he used ‘for sexual stimulation.’
The patient – who was a cross dresser – was too unstable for surgery and died two days after being admitted to the hospital.
An autopsy revealed that the eyeliner had penetrated his bladder and caused a egg-sized mass to form.
An unnamed man in Japan died of a kidney infection three years after inserting a tube of eyeliner in his rectum (stock image)
The above image from the patient’s autopsy shows the tube of eyeliner penetrating a large bladder stone, which likely formed as a result of the eyeliner penetrating and injuring the bladder
Doctors believe the patient died of sepsis as his body overreacted to a kidney infection.
According to the case, published in a medical journal, the unnamed patient suffered intermittent bouts of abdominal pain for three years.
Two weeks before his death, he complained of anorexia and diarrhea to his brother, who he lived with.
The patient’s medical history is unknown, as he rarely went in for checkups.
Though he was still unconscious when he arrived at the hospital, he suffered a high heart rate and low blood pressure.
He also had a 100 degree Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) fever.
Doctors gave the patient antibiotics, as they believed there could have been an infection, and norepinephrine for his low blood pressure. His vital signs were too poor for him to undergo surgery.
However, he died two days later after repeated attempts to revive him.
After his death, a police investigation revealed that the patient had a habit of wearing women’s clothes.
They also found a vibrator hidden in a stocking in his room. The patient’s left fingernails were painted red at the time of the autopsy.
This lead experts to believe that he inserted the eyeliner into his rectum ‘for sexual stimulation.’
The above CT scan shows the eyeline near the patient’s bladder. The eyeliner tube was attached to a bladder stone, which likely formed from sediments and bacteria found on the tube
Researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, found that men were more likely than women to come to hospital with a foreign object lodged in their rectums
The autopsy showed small wounds on the patient’s buttocks and an ulcer in his perineum, a small patch of skin between the anus and scrotum.
The eyeliner had penetrated his bladder and was found inserted in a 2.5 by 2.3 inch bladder stone, roughly the size of an egg. The mass likely formed from the eyeliner’s damage to the bladder.
The injury caused a rectovesical fistula, which caused the patient’s rectum, lower colon, and bladder to become stuck to each other.
Additionally, he suffered an infection in his left kidney, which spread to his spleen. This could have been from the fistula making it difficult for the patient to urinate, leading to urine building up in the bladder.
The team also noted that an infection could have been caused by bacteria lingering on the eyeliner, which could have accumulated over the three years it was stuck in the bladder.
The infection led to sepsis, which occurs when the immune system overreacts to infections and attacks healthy organs.
The doctors believe this is the first case report detailing a complication from a foreign body in the rectum several years after the initial incident.
They noted that while ‘this is an extremely rare case,’ sexual activity ‘should be considered a possible manner of death, even if the activity was performed several years previously.’
