New data suggests fivefold increase in young children swallowing magnets over past 5 years in UK
May 17 2021
There’s been a fivefold rise in the number of young children requiring treatment after having swallowed a magnet over the past 5 years in the UK, suggests data from specialist doctors in a letter published online in the
Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Nearly half of these children required surgery to remove the magnet, with surgical complications after retrieval a common occurrence.
Swallowing ‘foreign bodies’, such as coins and buttons, is common among young children from the age of 6 months onwards as they explore their environment, which is key to their development. Most of these objects pass out of the body naturally without causing any injury.
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