Doctors sound alarm over five-fold jump in kids swallowing magnets | Life

Friday, 14 May 2021 09:34 AM MYT
Doctors are cautioning parents about toys that contain magnets. ― iStock.com/ETX Studio pic
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LONDON, May 14 ― Doctors from major hospitals in England sounded an alarm on Wednesday over a fivefold increase in the number of young children requiring medical treatment after swallowing magnets from toys.
Nearly half of these kids aged four months and up required surgery to remove the magnets, often followed by complications, they reported in a research letter published in the
Archives of Disease in Childhood, a medical journal.

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