Very scary.
Parents are being warned about a new playground game that is becoming increasingly popular in schools. It involves kids putting magnets in their mouth to test the magnetic force from the outside of their skin.
Kids are using ball bearings and magnetic balls to play the game.
A warning comes after a boy in the UK had to undergo surgery to remove metal balls from his stomach that he swallowed.
12-year-old Freddie Webster swallowed two sets of magnetic balls as part of the game. A few days later he complained about stomach pains which led to him having to get lifesaving surgery after it was established that the balls tore a hole in his stomach.
Freddie’s paediatric consultant Marcin Kazmierski said that this was the fourth case the hospital had dealt with in the last few months. She told The Sun:
“I feel cautious about what I can do after the operation. I think these magnets should be banned in every country.
I know a lot of people who have them and they put them in their mouths, noses and even in their eyelids.”
