A US medical journal has listed all the things doctors had to remove from people's anuses in 2017 - and some of the items are mind-boggling.

The list, compiled by blog Adequate Man, features all sorts of household bits and bobs that are sure to make you wince.

6 A screwdriver was fished out of one patients bum Credit: Photodisc - Getty

They explain: "If it’s Christmas, it must be time to learn what America shoved inside itself. The only worthwhile holiday tradition pushes on.

"All reports are taken from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits, and they are occasionally not for the faint of spirit.

"If I may offer one universally good piece of advice, it would be to make sure the base is flared."

The things included are a golf ball, a peanut butter jar, a curtain rod, screwdriver and plastic fork.

6 Plastic cutlery also made it on to the list Credit: Getty - Contributor

6 Medics had to retrieve golf balls from one patient Credit: Getty - Contributor

6 A shot glass was put up one patients rear end after some party games 'went wrong' Credit: Getty - Contributor

6 A curtain rod was also on the list Credit: Getty - Contributor

A couple of the notes go in to slightly more detail, with medics noting that one patient "stuck a toy up his rectum as he thought he was constipated", and another was "at a party having fun with his male friends when one put a shot glass up his rectum."

Other eye-watering anecdotes were "attempted to dislodge a dildo from his anus using a letter opener" and "feeling lonely, used a mascara container in plastic bag, put in rectum."

6 Large shampoo bottles were also on the list - but it's not clear how they ended up there Credit: Alamy

One patient claimed that they put a water bottle in their rectum to "reduce anxiety" and another said that experimenting saw him left with a deodorant stuck in his bottom.

Other strange items included cat food cans, 'large' bottles of shampoo, batteries and coins.

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