A 13-year-old New Zealand boy had part of his intestines removed after swallowing more than 100 high-powered magnets believed to have been purchased from the Chinese shopping site Temu, according to reports.
The teen was admitted to Tauranga Hospital on the country’s North Island after four days of abdominal pain.
He told doctors he had ingested between 80 and 100 small neodymium magnets about a week earlier — but surgeons later recovered closer to 200 from his gut, according to a case report published Friday in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
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X-rays revealed four chains of magnets lodged in different sections of his intestines, pulling together and cutting off blood flow to nearby tissue.
A 13-year-old New Zealand boy had part of his intestines removed
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