US EditionSurgeons remove up to 100 magnets from N. Zealand teen's gut
A 13-year-old boy swallowed 80-100 banned high-powered neodymium magnets from an online marketplace, causing severe intestinal damage and requiring bowel removal, doctors said.
- Surgeons operated on a New Zealand teen who ingested approximately 80-100 high-power magnets, leading to tissue death in four areas of his bowel, as reported by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
- The magnets, banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on the online marketplace Temu, highlighting enforcement challenges of the product safety laws in the country, according to Professor Alex Sims.
- Doctors indicated that the child faced risks of complications such as bowel obstruction and chronic pain from the surgery needed to remove the magnets and dead tissue, linked to the ingestion incident.
- The case emphasizes the dangers of children accessing high-powered magnets marketed as toys on online platforms.
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Temu under fire as a New Zealand boy needed emergency surgery. He swallowed 100 magnets
A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand is recovering after surgeons removed up to 100 high-power magnets that he bought on Temu from his intestines. It’s hard to believe how negligent a major retailer can be, allowing a product that’s been banned for over a decade in that country to be sold directly to a child. The new victim of Temu is a kid who suffered for four days with intense abdominal pain before he was finally rushed to Tauranga hospital. The …
Teen Loses Part of Intestine After Swallowing 200 Magnets
A 13-year-old in New Zealand recently swallowed nearly 200 high-powered neodymium magnets. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t accidentally stumble upon a new health supplement that increased his vigor and tripled his vim. He needed some of his bowels extracted. According to a recent case report published in The New Zealand Medical Journal, doctors at Tauranga Hospital had to go on a scavenger hunt in the kid’s abdomen, discovering four separate linear ch…
The magnets stuck together inside, and the young man suffered from stomach cramps for four days.
When a boy suffering from stomach pain went to the doctor, he made a shocking revelation. He told the doctors that he had swallowed hundreds of small magnets. Removing the magnets from his stomach became a challenge for the doctors.
Boy, 13, Has Part of Bowels Removed After Swallowing Up to 100 Magnets Allegedly Purchased on Temu
Doctors discharged the boy eight days after removing the magnets during surgeryHANDOUT/NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL/AFP via Getty X-ray from the New Zealand Medical Journal of 13-year-old boy who swallowed magnetsNEED TO KNOWA 13-year-old boy in New Zealand spent days in the hospital after swallowing as many as 100 magnetsHe claimed to have purchased them online on TemuTemu has not yet confirmed whether or not the items came from their companyA 1…
A boy orders himself on the Temu Magnete platform and swallows them. The accident ends in the hospital with an emergency surgery.
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