Don't forget your toothbrush!
Patients with rectally inserted foreign bodies can present to accident and emergency departments or general medical practitioners. Rarely dentally related objects are inserted because of their ready availability in the domestic environment. There are many reasons given for their presence in the rectum, most commonly accidental insertion, assault, and psychosexual motives. This case is the first reported incident of a patient using a toothbrush to relieve his pruritus ani and subsequently losing it up into the rectum.
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Department of Surgery, Colchester General Hospital, Essex. deepimahesh@hotmail.com
D000368:Aged; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011538:Pruritus Ani / Q000628:therapy; D012007:Rectum; D014099:Toothbrushing / Q000295:instrumentation*