The weirdest Christmas-themed items doctors have removed from the backs of patients

Thousands of people in the US are hospitalized every year because they have foreign objects stuck in their buttocks.

While these often include sex toys, water bottles or even the occasional light bulb, the objects take on a particularly festive theme during the holidays.

Two emergency room doctors told DailyMail.com that there is a steady stream of people coming to the emergency department throughout the year with objects stuck in their butts.

But Dr. Barry Hahn, a New York-based emergency room physician, said, “During the holidays, people tend to become more festive and inventive with the items they want to celebrate with.

“Children usually swallow these things, but adults tend to place them in strategic locations lower in the body.”

Both doctors revealed that they had treated people with Christmas decorations stuck up their butts, as well as model snowmen and model Christmas trees.

In more bizarre cases, they have recovered a candy cane, miniature models of the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, and even a Buzz Lightyear statue.

The doctors say that in many cases people had inserted the objects into their anus for sexual pleasure.

Doctors also told DailyMail.com about previous situations where people arrived at the ER with Buzz Lightyear stuck in their butt

Due to privacy rules, few further details about the festive cases could be revealed, but doctors repeatedly warn people not to stick household items or festive decorations on their backsides.

In a TikTok from Dr. Adam Gaston, the emergency room doctor listed items to keep away from your butt, including nutcracker soldiers, as well as porcelain and plastic Christmas trees.

Dr. Stuart Fischer, an emergency room doctor in New York City, revealed to DailyMail.com the wide range of items he has had to remove from people’s backsides – festive and otherwise.

The doctor removed everything from deceased animals to dental products and even a doorknob.

He said: ‘I saw a gerbil once, but unfortunately it didn’t survive because it was suffocated.

“We knew it was there when we took an X-ray that showed the animal’s skeleton.”

He added: ‘In another case, someone came in with a family-sized toothpaste dispenser in it, the one where you press the top and the toothpaste comes out.

‘Describing how it happened, he said: ‘I was talking to some friends and then I sat down on the chair and then I realized that there was something uncomfortable, and I felt some discomfort, and that’s why I came to the emergency room. room.”‘

Above you see two points where doctors urged people not to stick their butts up. Both were sold at Target

The patients were successfully treated with anesthetics to help relax the anal muscles and allow doctors to pull out the objects.

But Dr. Fischer highlighted the complications a person may face if they place household items in the opening.

Household items placed in the rectum can become stuck because the tight walls of the rectum can create a sucking reflex, making it difficult to remove an object if it has no base.

Objects in the rectum can shatter under the pressure, causing a perforation or cut in the intestine, leading to bleeding and possible infection.

Doctors are warning people who have objects stuck in their buttocks to seek help immediately.

In most cases, surgeons remove the objects the same way they went in. They anesthetize the patient, which relaxes the anal muscles, allowing the objects to be removed.

In cases where this fails, patients may require surgery.

An analysis by researchers at the University of Rochester in New York found that nearly 40,000 Americans were hospitalized because of objects lodged in their rectum between 2012 and 2021, the equivalent of nearly 4,000 per year.

Men accounted for almost eight in 10 cases, with the most common group being men in their 20s and early 30s, who made up a third of all related ER visits.

Bottles, jars or bottle caps were the most common non-sexual devices found in people’s rectums, they found, accounting for 10 percent of cases.