Bummer.
Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectums each year, according to a new study published last month in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine – with many of the items being stuck sexual objects.
Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York were puzzled by the “little epidemiological information on this condition,” so they decided to analyze emergency reports from 2012 to 2021.
The study – said to be the first “nationally representative data” on rectal foreign bodies in the US – found 38,948 emergency department visits based on 885 cases during this time period among older adults over the age of 15.
Researchers reviewed the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for injuries involving the “pubic area” or “lower trunk,” with “an accompanying diagnosis of foreign body, puncture, or wound.”
Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectums each year, according to a new study.Getty Images/iStockphoto
More than half of the objects were sex toys. Getty Images
The system keeps records of injuries associated with consumer products, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Of these reported cases, the average age of patients who visited the emergency room was 43 years.
Almost 78% of the patients were male, and 40% of these patients required hospitalization.
More than half of foreign bodies are sexual objects, which can be items such as vibrators, anal beads or other toys.
Balls and marbles, as well as medications, were associated with lower hospitalization rates.
Almost 78% of the patients admitted to the hospital were men. Getty Images
Of the reported cases, the average age of patients who visited the emergency room was 43 years.Getty Images/iStockphoto
The researchers also found an increase in hospital visits for rectal foreign objects over the time period they studied, increasing from 1.2 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 1.9 in 2021.
“These data measure a commonly encountered clinical presentation that has received little research attention,” the study’s authors wrote.
“These data suggest that there are distinct gender and age differences in outcomes that may have an anatomical or behavioral basis.”
In April, the Visual Journal of Emergency Surgery reported that a man had to be rushed into emergency surgery after getting a can of deodorant stuck in his butt.
And last year, an elderly French man shocked doctors when he arrived with a World War I cannonball lodged in his anus.
It caused the hospital to be evacuated partly due to bomb scares.
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