Beauty bath eel swims up man's penis

Vain Zhang Nan, 56, had been told that taking a dip with the tiny fish would make him look ten years younger because they nibbled off layers of dead skin.But one of the elvers squirmed up his manhood and swam right into his bladder.

Zhang was rushed to hospital where he underwent a three-hour operation to remove the eel — by which time it was dead — in the city of Honghu, China.Zhang said: “I climbed in the bath and could feel the eels nibbling my body.

"Then I felt a severe pain and realised a small eel had gone into the end of my penis."I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too slippery to be held and it disappeared.”

Medics said slime on the elver’s body  which was measured as half an inch by six inches  had “worked as a lubricant”.Doctor Jin Wang said: "The diameter of the urethra in a man’s genitals is just a little narrower, but because eel are quite slippery, its body worked as a lubricant and so it got in smoothly."The eel treatment is a similar concept to the fish pedicures that are popular at London spas.