A man has died after a vibrator was stuck in his anus for five days, after being too embarrassed to seek advice from doctors.
The fifty-year-old carer from Forest Hill, London, was rushed into hospital on New Year’s Eve after telling a friend that he had been ‘lying on the sofa for five days feeling dizzy and weak’, the Evening Standard reports.
The man went into septic shock and was rushed into emergency surgery at Lewisham Hospital to remove the vibrator from his anus, Southwark Coroner’s Court heard on Tuesday. He died over a month later on 7th February.
The autopsy revealed that the man died of multiple organ failure, sepsis (a condition that is triggered by an infection) and a punctured bowel.
If sepsis is not treated quickly multiple organ failures may result.
The coroner ruled that the man ‘died as a result of an accident.’