Over the last month, five children who accidentally swallowed foreign objects were admitted to the Grodno Regional Children's Clinical Emergency Hospital.
Among them were coins, magnetic balls, and a metal ball from a bearing. The youngest patient was three years old, the oldest was 14, writes the local publication "Perspektyva".
One of the cases involved a seven-year-old boy from Grodno. He swallowed two magnetic balls at once. According to Dmitry Krivetsky, head of the endoscopy department, serious consequences were avoided because the magnets entered the body simultaneously and attracted each other, remaining in the stomach. If the child had swallowed them at different times, the magnets could have attracted each other through the walls of internal organs and damaged them.
Another seven-year-old girl from Berestovitsa district swallowed a magnetic ball 1.5 centimeters in diameter. The foreign object remained in her stomach for a whole week and did not pass out on its own.
There were also cases involving coins. A 14-year-old girl accidentally swallowed a ruble coin she was holding in her mouth. In another seven-year-old child, two coins were found in the stomach. And a three-year-old boy from Ostrovets swallowed a metal ball from a bearing.
In all five cases, doctors had to remove the foreign objects using a special endoscopic net.
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