A 2cm long fish apparently found it's way into the ***** of a 14-year-old boy from India in a bizarre medical case.

The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his ***** while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.

Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms."

After detecting the fish in the boy's bladder, Vezhaventhan and Jeyaraman used a technique known as cystourethroscopy to insert a special set of forceps down the patient's *****. Unfortunately, the fish was just too slippery to grip, so they resorted to using a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached that is normally used for removing bladder stones.

The fish the urologists removed, which Practical Fishkeeping believes to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide.

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.

14yo boy was later named as sibs

A couple of things...

1) How does a fish go up the ***** when you are urinating? How did it handle the pressure?

2) That fish is nearly a friggin square, lol

I heard about these on a do*****entary that was on ABC called 'Body Snatchers", if I'm not mistaken. They're found largely in the amazon and are parasitic. You just wish they could find a better way to go about being parasites....

The fish locates its human targets when people urinate near the fish. A well-circulated myth is that the candiru is capable of swimming up the stream of urine in mid-air to a victim standing on shore or a boat. This is physically impossible as the maximum swimming velocity of the fish is insufficient to oppose the downward velocity of the urine stream, and the further impossible act of the 5–14 mm wide fish maintaining position and thrust within a 2–7 mm wide column of fluid. Only a larger fish such as a Salmon or Trout could leap the required distance, however there will be an obvious size of fish versus size of ***** issue here. There has been a case where the victim claimed that the fish jumped while he was urinating from the bank of a river. They are also probably not attracted to pure urine.[4] It is believed that they are only able to enter a human urethra when it is expanded during urination.[8]