Post-Buckybals: Magnetic tongue stud warning issued in UK schools
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[quote]Young people are being warned about the dangers of magnetic tongue studs, after reports of serious medical emergencies.
The head teacher of St Matthew's Roman Catholic High School has sent out an alert to parents and spoken to pupils.
The studs give the wearer the look of a tongue piercing but without a hole.
If accidently swallowed, the magnets - designed to be worn either side of the tongue - can stick together, trapping parts of the intestine between them and leading to perforation of the bowel.
While magnetic facial studs can be bought online, schoolchildren are thought to be fashioning their own tongue versions using magnetic earrings and ball bearings from toy puzzles.
In his letter to parents, head teacher Kevin Hogan said: "We have spoken to all pupils about this matter and warned them of the potentially harmful consequences of swallowing these magnets.
"If your child has accidently swallowed one or more of these balls you should seek medical advice immediately."
Dr Anil Thomas George and Dr Sandeep Motiwale, of Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, wrote a letter to medical journal the Lancet, asking doctors to advise parents of the dangers.
They said two young children in the East Midlands had been admitted to hospital for surgery to remove magnets that had been swallowed.
They wrote: "Parents need to be alerted to the potential risk of silent bowel perforation and fistulation from accidental ingestion of magnets in children.
"Accidental ingestion of magnetic foreign bodies, which was once rare, has become more common owing to the increasing availability of toys with magnetic elements.
"A solitary ingested magnet can pass through the gut spontaneously. However, ingestion of multiple magnets or a single magnet along with another metallic part can cause them to stick to each other with forces of up to 1,300G [gauss], compressing the intervening bowel and leading to subsequent fistulation and perforation."[/quote]
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fistulation sounds hot
Pussies,you should remove them by shitting them out.
yeah this is retarded; it's fine with earrings and stuff but don't put fucking MAGNETS in your MOUTH
[editline]11th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=IPK;38791281]Pussies,you should remove them by shitting them out.[/QUOTE]
until they get stuck in different sections of your bowel and get lodged/caused enough damage you can't shit them out
buckyballs version 2.0.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38791467]buckyballs version 2.0.[/QUOTE]
Nope, this is actually pretty reasonable as a warning, whilst the buckyball case was just flat out stupid.
Buckyballs are magnets sold with huge amounts of warnings not to be eaten / put into mouth and to only be kept by adults, these are magnetic tongue piercings, which are a genuine swallowing hazard that can cause severe internal damage, due to the fact that they're designed to be put into your mouth, and can be quite easily detatched.
It's a warning about a stupid practise, if you want a tongue piercing then get a proper one, don't shove something with the potential to get caught around in and tear apart your insides.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;38791625]Nope, this is actually pretty reasonable as a warning, whilst the buckyball case was just flat out stupid.
Buckyballs are magnets sold with huge amounts of warnings not to be eaten / put into mouth and to only be kept by adults, these are magnetic tongue piercings, which are a genuine swallowing hazard that can cause severe internal damage, due to the fact that they're designed to be put into your mouth, and can be quite easily detatched.
It's a warning about a stupid practise, if you want a tongue piercing then get a proper one, don't shove something with the potential to get caught around in and tear apart your insides.[/QUOTE]
schoolchildren m8
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;38791963]schoolchildren m8[/QUOTE]
No legally mandated minimum age for piercing in the UK. Only age limits are the ones that the piercers set, or their association or whatever if they belong to one.
Suppose it's because it's less permenant than a tattoo, which does have an age restriction.
I agree with this; I do not agree with Buckyballs. Magnets in the mouth. What could go wrong?
Thought this article was about people swallowing these things...
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Was disappointed.
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