Edit: OH shit. I didn’t catch the teenager part. I’m still guessing magnet ball toys. It would be pretty difficult to swallow that many magnets unless they were that toy.
Now I’m curious. Why do you think they would do that at their age? All I can think of is Pica.
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.
Nah, dog. They should be banned in toy form. I’m not the other guy. They should be used for educational purposes in controlled environments or for industrial use, not around young children or I guess, teens now.
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…?
A probable cause is being a teenager. Teenagers are retarded. They have so many hormones going through their brains, it fucks them up completely, and makes them do incredibly dumb shit, and act in incredibly dumb ways, because their hormones tell them “do this, no questions”. It’s not their fault though, they’ll grow out of it, forget how dumb they were, and once in a while, while laying in bed late at night, usually when they have to get up super early for something super important, their asshole brain will remind them of some of the dumb shit they did.
I have no idea if this is it, but there is a use for ingesting magnets with cows, which might have inspired him. New Zealand does export a lot of beef.
Hardware disease in livestock is traumatic puncture of the gastrointestinal tract with resultant spread of infection, caused by ingestion of a sharp, hard object, usually a piece of hardware (hence the name). These pieces of metal settle in the reticulum and can irritate or penetrate the lining.[1] It is most common in dairy cattle, but is occasionally seen in beef cattle. It is very rarely reported in any other ruminants.[2] It can be difficult to conclusively diagnose, but can be prevented by the oral administration of a magnet around the time that the animal reaches the age of one year.[2] Depending on where the infection spreads, the medical names for it include bovine traumatic reticuloperitonitis and bovine traumatic reticulopericarditis.
A cow magnet, which can be used to prevent hardware disease
That being said, those things are shaped to pass through the system, I don’t think are super-powerful rare earth magnets, and you use a single one.
Yeah?
Edit: OH shit. I didn’t catch the teenager part. I’m still guessing magnet ball toys. It would be pretty difficult to swallow that many magnets unless they were that toy.
Now I’m curious. Why do you think they would do that at their age? All I can think of is Pica.
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.
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You’re right. Let me see if there is a magnet toy that is similar, but more disc like. Also, they’re magnets that are toys. Not magnets within toys.
Found it:
Ah, yeah I get what you mean by toys, yeah they can definitely be fun to play with, responsibly though!
The kid is lucky to be alive, but they just had to learn an obvious lesson the hard way huh? 🤦
Nah, dog. They should be banned in toy form. I’m not the other guy. They should be used for educational purposes in controlled environments or for industrial use, not around young children or I guess, teens now.
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. 👍
A probable cause is being a teenager. Teenagers are retarded. They have so many hormones going through their brains, it fucks them up completely, and makes them do incredibly dumb shit, and act in incredibly dumb ways, because their hormones tell them “do this, no questions”. It’s not their fault though, they’ll grow out of it, forget how dumb they were, and once in a while, while laying in bed late at night, usually when they have to get up super early for something super important, their asshole brain will remind them of some of the dumb shit they did.
Found it:
I have no idea if this is it, but there is a use for ingesting magnets with cows, which might have inspired him. New Zealand does export a lot of beef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease
That being said, those things are shaped to pass through the system, I don’t think are super-powerful rare earth magnets, and you use a single one.
Huh, til. Swallowing a single magnet can be beneficial to cows.