Jerusalem Parents Shocked After 19 Magnets Discovered In Baby’s Stomach

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last week a one-year-old baby was rushed to the Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, suffering from high fever and shivering.

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The pediatrician who checked the baby suspected a more serious condition and referred him for a lung x-ray which revealed that the baby had swallowed a large number of magnets. The parents did not know about this and said that he had played with the magnets two or three weeks earlier.

Dr. Zeev Davidovitz, a pediatric gastroenterologist, succeeded via a complex procedure in removing 12 of the magnets from the child’s stomach. Davidovitz said that “the baby was suffering from high fever and the doctor asked to perform a lung x-ray to check the lungs and this revealed foreign objects in the stomach, which are very dangerous and could cause a blockage or perforation of the stomach which can be fatal.

“We immediately performed an endoscopy and found a large number of magnets in the duodenum and one stuck in the side. We worked for an hour under complete anastheasia with a special net which is threaded through the esophagus and closes on the magnets. We then did a stomach x-ray and found seven more magnets which were stuck deep inside the stomach.”

The doctors decided to transfer the baby to Hadassah Ein Kerem where Dr. Amos Fruman, the director of pediatric surgery, performed another endoscopy to determine the place where the remaining magnets were and to remove them through surgery.

Froman said that if the magnets had not been discovered, an MRI scan done later in the baby’s life could have led to its death.

The baby’s parents who live in north Jerusalem are now calmer. “We saw the baby playing a few weeks ago with magnets and then they disappeared, we didn’t imagine that he had swallowed them. A week ago he had high fever which didn’t go down, so we took him to hospital where they discovered the magnets. We were stunned by the find and by the number of magnets he had swallowed.” The parents thanked the hospital staff for their efforts to remove the magnets without harming the child’s internal organs.

Dr. Davidowitz said in conclusion that “many countries prohibit selling small strong magnets because of what they could do to children who swallow them. I strongly warn parents not to keep such magnets in the house if they have small children.”

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HeshyEmes
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HeshyEmes
2 years ago

So, if someone swallows a magnet (or anything metallic), and he takes an MRI, it’s life threatening?