If you plan on spicing things up in the bedroom, then take care with how you tread as one wrong slip could send you to the emergency room.
To be honest, the ER doctors have likely seen many weird things come through their doors, so it’s nothing new for them – except for a WWI bomb lodged in someone’s rectum.
That’s not something you’d see everyday.
However, sex toys in places they shouldn’t be are a dime a dozen, according to a 2023 study, as they make up 95 per cent of emergency trips.
So if you don’t want to end up in that percentage, an expert has advised what to look out for to make sure that doesn’t happen.
A trip to the ER really kills the mood (Getty Stock Photo)
Kate Shelor, who is an intimacy coach and hypnotherapist, revealed that buying cheap toys can factor into it, which can be pretty unhygienic if you don’t look after them properly.
“Silicone, glass, and stainless steel toys can last for years with proper cleaning, but jelly, TPE (thermoplastic elastomers), or cheaper materials break down faster and can trap bacteria,” she told the Daily Mail.
“So if it gets sticky, discolored, or smells weird even after washing, it’s time to say goodbye.”
She added: “You may find super cheap toys at certain international online retailers but be aware that the materials may not truly be body safe. And of course, don’t just stick random objects in your body — if it’s not designed for internal use, it does not belong inside you.”
Shelor went on to explain how using non-anal toys for anal pleasure may lead to a trip to the emergency room.
“The most common one I hear is people using non-anal toys for anal play,” she added. “It’s vital that you use toys specifically made for anal play. They will have a flanged base and be built for easy removal.
“When you use a toy not meant for anal it can easily get stuck up inside your body, often requiring an emergency room visit! Nobody wants that.”
Alicia Davis knowns all about things going wrong with sex toys following a first date that didn’t exactly go to plan.
According to the expert, some materials aren’t ‘body safe’ (Getty Stock Photo)
Davis’ first date with a guy was going extremely well, and the mood was right for them to take things to the bedroom.
But as she explained in a viral TikTok video, Davis found herself needing medical attention after suffering an ‘unfortunate sex mishap’.
Davis revealed that she had been using an anal plug, but what happened next was certainly unfortunate.
Speaking to News.com.au, the 32-year-old said: “All of a sudden it felt like it had fallen out of me.”
After searching the sheets and turning the bedroom upside down, Davis had no idea where the NSFW toy had gone.
“So we stopped, and I put my hand down there to discover that it was gone,” she added. “We started pulling the doona and the pillows off the bed, looking underneath the bed for it… but it was no where to be found.”
The sex toy hadn’t ‘disappeared’; it was instead lodged inside her, so a trip to the emergency room was certainly required.
A woman made an easy mistake with her contact lenses and is losing her eyesight as a result.
Millions of people across the globe are contact lens-wearers, and there’s a good chance at once they’ve done what Maureen Cronin did, that ended up with her being diagnosed with a rare infection.
Tragedy struck for Maureen in August last year as she was hospitalized at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, US.
The 53-year-old ended up needing a cornea transplant in September 2024, but her eye rejected the transplant.
New Yorker Maureen Cronin has worn contact lenses for almost 20 years (Kennedy News and Media)
Maureen claims the steroid drops prescribed to help the pain have caused her to develop glaucoma. As a result, she’s now almost completely blind in her right eye and is waiting to undergo another cornea transplant to hopefully restore some of her sight.
As to what caused the infection, it all comes down to Maureen wearing her lenses in a swimming pool.
The 53-year-old has almost lost all of her vision in her right eye (Kennedy News and Media)
Maureen began offering swimming lessons to young children in their private backyard pools in June last year, but after teaching seven children while wearing her contact lenses in the water, she claims that her right eye started to irritate her.
Maureen, who has worn contact lenses for almost 20 years, said it felt like she had a grain of sand stuck in her eye and when the pain became ‘excruciating’ she visited an eye doctor who prescribed her eye drops.
The eye drops didn’t help, however, and eventually she was diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). According to Cleveland Clinic, AK is ‘a rare parasitic eye infection from a certain type of amoeba’.
It goes on: “It affects the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped front covering of your eye. When not treated, it can damage your eyes and cause loss of sight.”
She began teaching kids how to swim last year (Kennedy News and Media)
Maureen has now been raising awareness about her AK diagnosis in a bid to warn others about wearing contact lenses around water to stop this from happening to them.
“I am hopeful but fearful at the same time [about the next cornea transplant]. I’m afraid it won’t take. It feels like it’s never ending and I’m nervous,” she said.
“AK is not well known and it is often misdiagnosed. I would say anyone who wears contact lenses shouldn’t wear them near any body of water.”
Maureen’s eye ended up clouding over (Kennedy News and Media)
Maureen admitted: “I now have a fear of being near any kind of water. I shower with my goggles on.
“My eye is cloudy because of the cataract and the pupil is large. It’s off putting because the pupil is so big and it looks cloudy.”
She went on: “If you treat it early, you can kill the parasite and you don’t have to go through the hospital and surgery process.
“I was not aware at all, I was never told by my optician to never wear them in water.”
