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  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestinesEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Meh, I was playing with magnets in kindergarten. Supervised of course though, both at home and in school, but even if I wasn’t supervised, I never felt the urge to eat them (or eat Lego or other random non-edible stuff for that matter).

    Magnets are a strange wonder that tends to perk our natural human curiosity. While I totally agree that kids shouldn’t handle magnets unsupervised, still the kid was 13?! I’ll never understand it, but there is the condition called Pica, basically the urge to eat random non-food items…

    I have no idea really, but bigger questions come to mind, like does the kid already have a history of eating stupid things, why did they eat so many, how did the kid order them from Temu, did the parent(s) approve the order, how did they get into New Zealand where they’re apparently banned…?

    🤷

    At least the kid is still alive. 👍

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestinesEnglish
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    26 days ago

    The 5mm x 2mm magnets had attached and aligned in 4 distinct rows, in different areas of the intestines, and the rows had attached to each other between the different areas of the intestines, causing some intestinal necrosis which had to be removed as well.

    I’m pretty sure they weren’t magnets within toys, but rather just the plain magnets by themselves. Neodymium magnets no less, the powerful modern ones.

    Kinda helps to read the article yo, but yeah the kid did a real dumdum there, almost like they were looking for the most excruciating Darwin Award.