Multiple magnet ingestion in children: Near‐fatal attractions

Conduit, Ciara; Cunliffe, Tessa; Beggs, Sean; Ee, Michael; Fenton, Edmond; Jones, Niall

doi:10.1111/jpc.12231

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“…We collected reports of accidental magnet ingestion from 2012 to 2019 using the following search formulations: “magnets”[MeSH Terms] OR “magnets”[All Fields] OR “magnet”[All Fields]) AND (“eating”[MeSH Terms] OR “eating”[All Fields] OR “ingestion”[All Fields]) AND (“child”[MeSH Terms] OR “child”[All Fields] OR “children”[All Fields]. A total of 54 patients 3,5,11‐47 were identified (Table 4). Fifty patients ingested multiple magnets.…”

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A nationwide questionnaire survey on accidental magnet ingestion in children in Japan

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Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common accident encountered in daily paediatric practice. Three-fourths of patients with accidental FB ingestions occur in children aged ≤ 5 years. 1 Although most children with accidental FB ingestion are asymptomatic and FBs such as coin will pass with no gastrointestinal symptoms, button batteries, 2 multiple magnets 3 and magnets with metal objects 4 are known to sometimes cause life-threatening complications. Deaths following multiple-magnet ingestion have been reported. 5 Magnets are widely used in daily life as toys or pasting tools that are utilised to paste documents or photographs on metal products such as whiteboards and refrigerators. The number of accidental ingestions of magnets is increasing. 6,7 A study in the United States revealed an 8.5-fold increase of emergency department visits involving magnet ingestion. 6 The hazards of single-magnet ingestion

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