The human body usually has all its component parts present from birth – but it seems many people, by accident or design, end up adding stuff that's really not meant to be there.
A report has revealed that foreign objects lodged in people’s bodies include magnets, phone chargers, lollipops and orange peels, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) database.
And these objects were the ninth leading cause of unintentional injuries in 2021 — with nearly 278,000 US adults needing care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found.
In December 2022, a blogger on Defector listed some of the specific foreign objects found in the CPSC database, classified by orifice – where items that were lodged in people’s ears included a cufflink, wet tissues, a plastic sword, an insect, a rock, a lollipop, a charger, a piece of ice cream cone, a pushpin, a pencil eraser and a Battleship game piece.
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A schoolboy had to have emergency surgery to remove six magnetic toys from his stomach (Elaine Hambly / SWNS)Liquid items placed in the ear included shoe glue (added instead of ear drops), lighter fluid, candle wax and hydrogen peroxide. And in noses were found gum wrappers, a used match, magnets, rice, candy hearts, yarn, jewels, gummy worms, orange peels, an LED light, flowers, cheese, popcorn kernels and glue.
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The swallowing of items results in a high number of ER visits and these included tools, nails, a steak knife, a small flashlight, a glue stick, pet toys, coins, office supplies, cigarettes, aluminium foil, hair clips, keys and darts.
Getting items stuck after inserting them into genitalia also resulted in many visits to hospitals. Men turned up with sex toys, beads, paper clips, coins, a car key, a pencil, a nail, a ceiling fan chain, a cell phone charger and a wooden spoon inside them.
A little girl called Lexi 'accidentally' swallowed a pair of magnets (Liverpool echo)While women have been found to have coins, a screw, a pen, a drumstick, a flashlight, a drinking cup, a golf ball, a nail polish bottle and even a spatula, while some of the items placed in rectums included sex toys, spoons, magnets, bottles, crayons, wrenches, action figures, a vegetable peeler, candles, a fishing pole and an ice-cream cone.
"Foreign objects being stuck in strange places is predictable at No.9, when you consider that more than half are sex toys," Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, told Fox News Digital about the data.
Siegel added that many people also absentmindedly poked themselves with objects, especially in the nose, ears and mouth and explained he had once treated a 10-year-old patient who had a clogged nasal passage that was causing the child a lot of pain. He said: "It took me a while to figure out that he had stuck a battery up there. Luckily, it didn't leak and we were able to get it out."
A study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine in July this year found that nearly 4,000 people are hospitalised each year due to having foreign objects stuck in their rectums, and Dr Siegel added: "Orifices are not made for foreign object intrusion unless it's a doctor doing it for investigative medical purposes."
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