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A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Oct 24.

After suffering four days of abdominal pain, the unnamed teen was taken to Tauranga Hospital on the North Island.

“He disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior,” said a report by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

The magnets, which have been banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on online shopping platform Temu, they said.

An X-ray showed the magnets had clumped together in four straight lines inside the child’s intestines.

“These appeared to be in separate parts of bowel adhered together due to magnetic forces,” they said.

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Surgeons operated to remove the dead tissue and retrieve the magnets, and the child was able to return home after an eight-day spell in hospital.

“This case highlights not only the dangers of magnet ingestion but also the dangers of the online marketplace for our paediatric population,” said the authors of the paper, Dr Binura Lekamalage, Dr Lucinda Duncan-Were and Dr Nicola Davis.

Surgery for ingestion of magnets can lead to complications later in life such as bowel obstruction, abdominal hernia and chronic pain, they said.

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 52 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie, banning 5x2mm magnets is insane. They're very useful, I've seen countless DIY projects or 3D print models that use them and in general they're just handy. It seems insane to me to ban them for such a reason. There are infinite ways in which children can hurt themselves, should we ban stoves because they can get hot? That ban sounds a bit too much to me.

[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 12 points 8 hours ago

The ban was specifically in the context of toys.

We banned toy magnets. Magnets for other purposes are still completely legal.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly. I never heard of a magnet ban in my life.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"You can't explain that." ~ Bill O'Reilly

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Magnetic field comes in and field comes out. You can't explain that

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Bucky Balls were banned in the USA for 4 or 5 years.