The weirdest Christmas-themed items doctors have removed from patients' backsides
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Thousands of people are hospitalized each year in the US for sticking foreign objects up their backsides. While these often include sex toys, water bottles or even the occasional light bulb, during the holiday season the objects take on a particularly festive theme.
![[Doctors also told DailyMail.com about previous situations where people arrived in the ER with Buzz Lightyear stuck in their behind]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/14/16/93149243-14192793-image-m-11_1734192722437.jpg)
Two emergency medicine doctors told DailyMail.com there is a steady stream of people coming to the emergency department (ED) with objects stuck in their behinds throughout the year. But Dr Barry Hahn, a New York-based emergency medicine doctor, said: ‘During the holiday season, people tend to become more festive and more inventive with the objects that they want to celebrate with.
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‘Kids usually swallow these things, but adults tend to place them in strategic locations lower down the body.’. Both doctors revealed they had treated people with Christmas ornaments stuck up their behinds, as well as model snowmen and model Christmas trees.
In more bizarre cases, they've retrieved a candy cane, miniature models of the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building and even a Buzz Lightyear figurine. The doctors say in many cases, people had inserted the objects into their anus for sexual pleasure.
The above is an X-ray of a patient who came in with a candy cane lodged in their backside. Doctors also told DailyMail.com about previous situations where people arrived in the ER with Buzz Lightyear stuck in their behind. Few further details could be revealed about the festive cases because of privacy rules, but physicians repeatedly warn people not to stick household items, or festive decorations, into their backsides.
