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From the article. "The tiny batteries can get stuck in and severely burn the esophagus within two hours, which can lead to major injury or death." So yes smal
by petermcneeley 4y ago
From the article.
"The tiny batteries can get stuck in and severely burn the esophagus within two hours, which can lead to major injury or death."
So yes small things can get stuck in a child's digestive track. Why are these doctors trying to prove the opposite by demonstrating that an adult can easily digest a (common) child size object?
- teruakohatu 4y agoIt's explained the first couple of lines of the article. They wanted to see how long plastic objects would pass through the system. They couldn't ethically ask a child to do, so themselves was the next best thing.
- petermcneeley 4y agoIs it ethical to perform an experiment on an adult and then say that the result applies to a child?
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- bee_rider 4y agoHmm. I guess an adult would be an upper bound, right? Longer way to go.
- lll-o-lll 4y agoThe batteries are dangerous because of their chemistry. Deadly dangerous. There is no danger in swallowing Lego heads. Which was the point. Be aware of what’s actually going to harm your kid.
- luxuryballs 4y agoI thought they were trying to measure the passing time, not checking for danger. I don’t think there’s any doubt in their minds that there is danger.
- lll-o-lll 4y ago“ We get people to swallow pill cameras all the time in our gastro department, and they're bigger than that. The numbers that we'd learned, although I'd learned as part of my pediatric training around what you will and won't pass and where the danger zones are, is that if something's greater than 110 millimeters, then it won't get around your duodenum. And if it's pointy and spiky, then there's a risk of it stabbing into stuff. The Lego heads were neither of those. We've kind of talked about that right at the point of designing the study because we talked about swallowing the classic two-by-four Lego brick, and then decided that that was going to be too pointy. Really, a Lego head is just like a piece of corn, isn't it?” So no, there’s no danger. Sure, the passing time was the premise but this was done for a) laughs and b) to spread awareness about swallowing batteries.
- luxuryballs 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverticulitis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverticulitis
- lll-o-lll 4y agoNot sure what your point is in linking to this?
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThey are presumably trying to warn of the danger that a foreign indigestible body might get stuck in a pocket in the gut. But were too lazy to say so.
- epakai 4y agoWe had a teen swallow a coin cell and it was allowed to pass. The biggest factors for retrieval seem to be size, a small child may have the object stick, and then if the battery ruptures. The ER doctors seemed satisfied it hadn't done so, and sent us on our way.