In the interest of saving anyone else falling for the clickbait, the “1 Way” in the headline is “don’t let kids touch magnets”
Thank you!
Kids keep eating lots of things. The “one way” to stop it: parenting. But even that doesn’t always work because kids are like… that. I’m sure that if you went 4000 years in the past, ancient toddlers would be putting stones and styli and tabula rasae in their mouths, and 4000 years from now they’ll be putting futuristic whatevers in their mouths. They’re toddlers. It’s what they do. Sometimes they’re magnets. In the future articles will read: Kids Keep Eating Dermal Regnerators— 5 Ways to Make Them A For-Profit Clinic or whatever
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wow, that last bit was a one sentence cyberpunk story.
I’d read that story.
The point is that magnets pose a greater threat than most things that are commonly swallowed. This article identifies that risk and tries to spread the word to treat magnets as more dangerous than coins or other random small objects which may be choking hazards.
Fair enough. I was just mocking the headline.
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Nice article.
The endoscopists at our childrens hospital also echoed that magnets are a super common foreign body ingestion, any two magnets swallowed is a huge hazard with a high potential for lifelong consequences. And the little balls are supposedly the worst as they have a small surface area in addition to being fairly strong, so they cause perforations quickly.
Also warnings on a magnet box or other toys will be ignored far more commonly that on household chemicals. I don’t know any people who keep bleach on their office desk, and even then it is in a childproof bottle. But many will have these little magnet balls on full display or somewhere a child can reasonably reach, some parents give these to inapropriately aged kids to play with even. Nobody gives a bottle of bleach for their kids to play with.
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I checked through the links, and what I did find, besides the childrens magnets is that 1/4 of the magnets were small magnet balls, so it is not like it is an uncommon thing. If magnets are ingested they can cause serious surgical emergencies, which will lead to having to cut out part of the intestines as well as potentially cause peritonitis, the surgery will have lifelong consequences, it is of course also possible to die from complications. And small powerful magnets cause the most damage.
Generally the only other foreign body that is as bad to ingest as small magnets are batteries.
Regarding the warnings - Ill say it again, noone really reads those , everyone I have known with the balls has had them on full display without safety. People for solid things like this just look at the warnings and go, well duh its a choking hazard. And then of course theres the classic reasoning of but my kid is smarter.
Is the CPSC right? I mean, their reason stands solid, their response maybe disproportionate. That said I think the idea that the magnet industry somehow wronged the CPSC is a bit conspiratorial.
Also I would not classify drugs as household chemicals, hence why I chose bleach as my example. The other really bad offender for household chemicals used to be 70% vinegar, but that one was banned in the EU, so now we can only buy 9% which will not cause more than an upset stomach generally, most other common household chemicals will not be as bad and many of them still have childproof locks.
I wonder if there’s been any research on introducing child-safe locks to household chemicals like we have on laundry detergent and on medications…
Lot of mine seem to have these, possibly even all that were purchased in the last few years.
No idea if this is due to regulations.
Interesting, most I buy or see in stores are just regular containers
Then stop making the magnets so damn tasty
Coat them with the same stuff the Switch cartridges have!
Well, now I’ve got to lick my cartridge
I remember I did that the first day I got a switch, just to see what the hype was all about. Tasted pretty damn awful but I think if you were really committed to it and drank a lot of water you could probably swallow one.
It’s been an hour, they dead.
Enjoy!
LSD?
Alternative option: when a kid eats a magnet, use a really huge magnet to get that magnet out of the kid. Guaranteed to make sure there are no repeat offenders.
“Just months after satisfying their craving for Tide pods…”
Metal dentures?
A bigger magnet
Roy Scheider has entered the
boatchat
The phrasing of that headline makes it sound like the solution is to kill the children lol
It’s like the “There’s only one thing worse than a rapist,” Vine
