Doctors were left speechless after discovering an acupuncture needle during an X-ray of a boy’s penis.
After the medical team examined an 11-year old patient with difficulty urinating, they made this painful discovery.
Unable to explain the boy’s pain he was sent to Jiangxi Children’s Hospital in Jiangxi Province, central China for an X-ray.
The Mirror reported that doctors discovered an 8cm needle in the patient’s penis.

The needle was seen in an X-ray photograph. It was undated and was removed from the urethra of a Nanchang boy. Jiangxi Children’s Hospital removed the needle

Doctors were stunned to discover that a 8cm needle was inserted into his penis.
After questioning the boy, he admitted inserting the needle into his urethra himself because ‘he was bored’ and wanted to discover if it was possible.
Rao Pinde (chief medic) said that the boy was unable to urinate after he had used the needle for 12 hours.
After his penis became painful, he asked for assistance but didn’t admit to it. The needle was quickly removed using a non-invasive procedure that used an endoscope.
Following his surgery, the boy was allowed home.

A X-Ray revealed that the 87mm sewing needle was positioned in the 10-year-old Iranian boy’s urethra in such a way that trying to pull it out could have caused further damage.
After a needle got lodged in his bladder, a 10-year old boy was forced to get a threader the same length of a Twix through his penis.
Unnamed children from Iran were taken to the hospital by the child after he had pushed the 9cm long object into his mouth and struggled for over three hours to remove it.
The boy’s doctors said that he had put the needle in his bladder with the blunt end. Urine and semen are carried by the bladder.
While it’s not known why he did this, medics speculated that he may have done so out of curiosity, pleasure, or perhaps a short psychological episode.
They said that he didn’t have any history of mental illness.
The details of the circumstances around the incident, revealed in the journal Urology Case Reports, are scarce.