Bizarre But True – Man Giving Birth to His Twin

This actual account traces the case of a man of Indian origin by the man named Sanju Bhagat hailing from Nagpur, India. The man literally carried his parasitic twin within his body in the stomach region for more than three decades.

This occurrence is extremely rare cited in one among every five lakh live births. This occurs in the preliminary stages of twin pregnancies wherein one fetus swathes around and encases the other one. The dominating fetus shows normal development, whereas contrarily its twin fetus evolves into a sponging form that leeches off its host twin’s supply of blood and nutrients. This freeloading parasitic twin lacks a brain and has majority of its inner organs incapable of independent functioning.

Normally, both the twins face imminent mortality prior to birth. However, this was not the condition in this cited case. If both twins do manage to survive, the scrounging twin develops to such an extent that it starts to have a disparaging effect on the host. In such cases surgical intervention is needed.

The growth is noted to reach such a level that the host twin could appear pregnant, as was the situation that was cited in Sunju’s case. His abdominal area had swelled up to such a degree that he appeared to be nine months pregnant and was facing respiratory distress. The man mentioned herewith experienced significant amount of discomfort throughout his lifetime due to his distended stomach. However as his condition deteriorated, he needed hospitalisation wherein the doctors perceived that they would be surgically removing a gigantic tumor. Largely, the tumor size was so enormous that it was exerting pressure on the diaphragm and hence was the reason behind his breathlessness. Due to the utter size of the tumor, the doctors underwent great difficulty in operating on it. The doctors were already apprehensive about being faced with a host of issues during the operating procedure.

The doctors soon spotted the tumor when the operation commenced, however, there was gallons of excessive fluids being spurted out when the patient was incised deeper. There was sheer astonishment and shock for the doctor carrying out the procedure who could literally shake hands with someone inside the patient’s body.

The parasitic twin showed the presence of bones, limbs, genitalia, some extent of hair growth and jaws.

At initial peek, one would comprehend that the male patient had given birth, though it was not actually the case. The doctors had successfully removed the parasitic twin brother of the patient that has existed within him for close to four decades.

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