A woman was left with horrendous injuries after a sex toy she left inside her was dragged through her body during an MRI scan. The 22-year-old had inserted the "butt plug" in her back passage before she went for the scan. But the item reacted dangerously with the scanner, causing it to be dragged from her rectum and up into her body.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners use powerful magnets to produce images of what is inside the body. The results of MRI scans are then used to help diagnose conditions and plan treatments. The woman who inserted the sex toy had believed it was made entirely out of silicone but it actually contained metal in its core.
An image of the sex toy being dragged up through the body has circulated online and led to warnings about wearing metal objects during the scan. A X user shared the picture and captioned the post: "Never wear a butt plug to your MRI appointment. My God." Although harmless to human tissue, the magnetic field an MRI generates is 30,000 times stronger than that of the earth, capable of accelerating an object to dozens of feet per second.
Objects containing ferrous metals are pulled towards it and so must not be carried into the scan room. Here The Mirror takes a look at other horrifying MRI incidents. It's not just patients who suffer from MRI scan malfunctions. At Redwood City Medical Center in Redwood, California, a nurse was crushed in a freak accident with an MRI machine.
