{"id":5195,"date":"2023-11-08T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2023-11-08T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:23:07","slug":"these-are-some-of-the-strange-objects-that-get-stuck-in-peoples-bodies-according-to-cdc-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/08\/these-are-some-of-the-strange-objects-that-get-stuck-in-peoples-bodies-according-to-cdc-data\/","title":{"rendered":"These are some of the strange objects that get stuck in people’s bodies, according to CDC data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magnets, chargers, lollipops and orange peels are just some of the surprising objects that people got stuck in their bodies in 2021, according to reports from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission\u2019s (CPSC) database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign objects lodged in people\u2019s bodies was the ninth leading cause of unintentional injuries that led to emergency room visits<\/u><\/a> in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) \u2014 with nearly 278,000 U.S. adults seeking care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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\u00a0NYU Langone Medical Center<\/u><\/a>, told Fox News Digital about the data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But there is also the factor of people absentmindedly poking themselves with objects, especially in the nose, ears and mouth,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Serious injury can result.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siegel said he once treated a 10-year-old patient who had a clogged nasal passage that was causing the child a lot of pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It took me a while to figure out that he had stuck a battery<\/a> up there,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Luckily, it didn’t leak,” he added \u2014 “and we were able to get it out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fox Magnets, chargers, lollipops and orange peels are just some of the surprising objects that people got stuck in their bodies in 2021, according to reports from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission\u2019s (CPSC) database. Foreign objects lodged in people\u2019s bodies was the ninth leading cause of unintentional injuries that led to emergency room visits in 2021, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-08-at-07.21.47.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}