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Powerful toy magnets can tear through a child’s intestines if swallowed
A single small magnet may pass through the digestive system, but multiple powerful magnets can attract across loops of tissue ...
If Ed Scruggs, of Austin, Texas, hadn’t seen it for himself, he might never have believed it. But there it was on his 11-year-old daughter’s X-ray: a string of tiny, super-strong spherical magnets in ...
A federal agency said the deaths and more than 2,000 emergency-room visits have been tied to pea-size magnets that are easily ingested. By Emily Schmall See more of our coverage in your search results ...
It’s a macabre medical tale updated for our modern day. In a case report out today, doctors describe how a 13-year-old boy in New Zealand was hospitalized and required surgery after he ingested dozens ...
The powerful magnets were banned in 2013, but the rules against using them in toys were lifted in 2016, leading to more emergency room visits. Children are at an increased risk of swallowing ...
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