{"id":197163,"date":"2025-06-19T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197163\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:50:19","slug":"womans-colon-explodes-out-of-her-body-after-coughing-too-hard-from-a-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197163\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s colon EXPLODES out of her body after coughing too hard from a cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 07:40 EDT, 19 June 2025 | Updated: 07:42 EDT, 19 June 2025 <\/p>\n

Doctors are warning about the dangers of coughing too hard this allergy season.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, doctors wrote a case report of an unnamed woman, 61, from Taiwan<\/a>, who suffered a rare bowel evisceration – when\u00a0parts of the intestines protrude outside of the body<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while rare, similar cases have been reported, like that of an 86-year-old woman from the UK in 2011, who was suffering from a respiratory infection had an intense coughing fit and\u00a0also experienced evisceration of her small bowel through her vagina.<\/p>\n

In both cases, the women experienced the injury because of defects stemming from prior hysterectomies – removal of the uterus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the 2025 case report, the woman had undergone a hysterectomy 10 months prior and suffered no complications, but visited the emergency room when she began experiencing abdominal pain.<\/p>\n

In an examination, doctors\u00a0discovered a small part of her bowel was protruding out of her vagina. During emergency surgery to repair the injury doctors\u00a0discovered a defect in part of her vaginal wall that allowed the intestines to break through and leave her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it was not specified what caused the woman’s injury, authors of the case <\/a><\/a>report <\/a>cite a chronic cough or intense coughing fit as risk factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once the organs were repositioned, the surgeons fixed the defect, the woman\u00a0recovered and she returned home five days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Both <\/p>\n

Both women experienced small bowel evisceration through their vaginas, with one suffering from it after an intense coughing fit<\/p>\n

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She was formally diagnosed with vaginal cuff dehiscence – the reopening of a surgical site – with small bowel evisceration.<\/p>\n

This is a known possible complication of a hysterectomy, but is still very rare, occurring in about 0.032 percent of patients following a pelvic operation.<\/p>\n

There is limited data on the occurrence of wound dehiscence, but a 2014 study <\/a>found up to three-in-100 people who have had abdominal and pelvic surgeries may experience it. That rises to up to 10 percent of elderly patients.<\/p>\n

And it can be deadly for four-in-10 patients due to excessive blood loss, prolonged severe pain or injury to the organs that have been exposed.<\/p>\n

In the 2011 case report, the woman went to the emergency department and told doctors she had an intense coughing fit and then felt her bowel protruding from her vagina – six inches of her intestines were outside of her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the prior three years, the woman had been experiencing a vaginal vault prolapse – when the top of the vagina falls into the vaginal canal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The condition had been well-managed, however, by her primary doctor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eventually her situation became too complicated and she was referred to a specialist but the evisceration occurred before she was able to make an appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The doctors rushed the woman into surgery where they repaired the defect and replaced her bowels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The operation was successful and she was discharged six days later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officially, the woman’s diagnosis was\u00a0ruptured vaginal vault leading to prolapse of the small bowel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authors of the case report <\/a>wrote the prolapse of small bowel through a ruptured vagina has been reported in just 113 cases worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mortality rate in vaginal evisceration is about six percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When these injuries occur, they\u00a0must be treated with surgery to replace the organs and close any open wounds or defects.<\/p>\n

A sterile saline covering should also be put on eviscerations to keep the exposed organs moist until surgery can be performed.<\/p>\n

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