Lexi Kendall disclosed in a Facebook post that these were something she assumed if put high enough out of Ava’s reach, she couldn’t get to, them, that ‘balls weren’t something she worried about in terms of child-proofing.’ unfortunately, that was not the case.
Read further to see the noticeable symptoms of a toxic or harmful ingestion in a toddler. Also, read more on the mother’s account, hopefully, her story will serve as a source of enlightenment on magnetic ingestions in toddlers.
Have your child or children ever ingested something potentially harmful, share in the comments your baby proofing tips!
When Lexi Kendall’s 2-year-old daughter, Ava, plucked nine pellet-sized silver magnets off of her fridge and ate them, the mom had no idea how seriously ill mini magnets can make kids.
Lexi first realized there was something wrong when Ava “started clutching her stomach, screaming in pain” for no apparent reason, the Houston mom told KHOU. So Lexi took Ava to a walk-in clinic, where the staff told her that the child had a stomach flu.
Fearing something worse, the mom turned to the ER at Texas Children’s Hospital, where a scan showed nine pellets in Ava’s intestines — and Lexi recognized the objects as part of a gift similar to Buckyballs, which were banned in 2008 by the U.S. by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In a 2012 press release, the CPSC offers examples of a 2-year-old boy in Mississippi who swallowed eight magnets from a game and caused severe injury to his intestines, as well as a 3-year-old girl in Oregon who ate 37 magnets from an executive desk toy that landed her in the hospital as well.
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