Children's surgeons are sounding the alarm: again in the surgery department of Children's Clinical City Hospital No. 9 children with magnetic balls in the abdomen. Only in the last period several children applied for medical help. All of them were hospitalized in the hospital with acute abdominal pains. When examined in the reception department and conducted X-ray diagnostics, the notorious magnetic balls in the intestine were found, the press service of the City Hospital.

"Unfortunately, the parents of young children, from about 1 year to 4 years old, buy a designer, consisting of magnetic balls, as a toy," says Igor Ogarkov, deputy chief surgery doctor of the DGKB No. 9.. - During the game and as a result of inattention of adults, small magnets enter the mouth and intestines of the child. Foreign bodies are often swallowed by children: these are coins, and batteries, pendants, barrettes, pins. And recently - magnetic balls. If swallowed, the magnetic ball enters the gastrointestinal tract into one of the intestinal loops, the other ball into the other, and then becomes magnetized to each other. At pressure on the bowl, there is a disruption in the intestine, and after 6-8 hours, the intestinal wall becomes dead. As a result, there is a "hole" in the gut with the development of peritonitis. And if the intestinal loops glue together, deform, then there is obstruction.

The complications arising from the ingestion of magnetic balls are comparable to the shot injury ".

Doctors say that surgical operations performed to remove foreign bodies in the intestine are complex and require a fairly long time. In addition, during the operation, part of the intestine is removed and sutured. After such operations, as a rule, children have a long recovery period.

Therefore, doctors pay attention of adults to this problem, and ask to prohibit the use of designers with magnetic balls as a toy for children of preschool age.