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A man who put two live pond loaches into his anus is now in intensive care after one of the fish swam up into his intenstines.

The unnamed 45-year-old man, who was drunk at the time of insertion, was rushed to hospital with signs of a high temperature, low blood pressure and severe stomach pain.

According to reports, the man admitted to voluntarily putting two pond loaches into his anus when he was heavily under the influence of alcohol.

Doctors in Guangzhou, southern China, managed to successfully remove the fish.

One had broken through the bowel wall, which was causing the patient the severe abdominal pain.

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As the two loaches had stayed in the patient's body for over 24 hours, surgeons had to perform an abdominal digital radiography to locate them, the Daily Mail reports.

The patient was diagnosed with perforation of the intestine and was at risk of septic shock due to infection.

Doctors told the reporters that the second pond loach was stuck in the upper left section of his abdomen.

One doctor said: "The second fish is four inches long and 0.8 inches wide. He could have lost his life if this loach swam further and reached upper organs."