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A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Oct 24.

After suffering four days of abdominal pain, the unnamed teen was taken to Tauranga Hospital on the North Island.

“He disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior,” said a report by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

The magnets, which have been banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on online shopping platform Temu, they said.

An X-ray showed the magnets had clumped together in four straight lines inside the child’s intestines.

“These appeared to be in separate parts of bowel adhered together due to magnetic forces,” they said.

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Surgeons operated to remove the dead tissue and retrieve the magnets, and the child was able to return home after an eight-day spell in hospital.

“This case highlights not only the dangers of magnet ingestion but also the dangers of the online marketplace for our paediatric population,” said the authors of the paper, Dr Binura Lekamalage, Dr Lucinda Duncan-Were and Dr Nicola Davis.

Surgery for ingestion of magnets can lead to complications later in life such as bowel obstruction, abdominal hernia and chronic pain, they said.

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[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still have a set of BuckyBalls that I bought before the ban. They're kind of a cool toy to fidget with, but I understand why they're banned.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shouldn't they just ban 13 year olds?

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[–] remon@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

What the hell is wrong with NZ? Are they trying to out nanny-state the UK?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking christ NZ can't even have magnets?!

That sounds like something the british would do.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well hearing Trump rant against magnets might happen to the US soon as well

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[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How is Temu allowed to sell items which are explicutly banned in that country?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

By shifting the responsibility to the seller. temu is just a marketplace, the sellers are people who run the factories or their fulfillment center.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I like to think as the surgeons were removing the magnets they asked themselves “Magnets, how do they work?”

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