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Two things: 1) Lego bricks are targeted at a specific age group (there's a reason why Duplo blocks are larger, and thus, targeted at a younger age group) 2) L
by spc476 13y ago
Two things:
1) Lego bricks are targeted at a specific age group (there's a reason why Duplo blocks are larger, and thus, targeted at a younger age group)
2) Lego bricks aren't attracted to each other and burrow through soft tissue to meet. Buckyballs, made of rare earth magnets, are attracted to each other and can cause tissue damage if two or more are swallowed.
Granted, Lego bricks might cause irritation going through the digestive system, but not nearly cause the damage that rare earth magnets can.
- Qantourisc 13y ago2) Unless you have a gastric bypass they should be attracted to each-other in the stomach, before going anywhere where you can squeeze stuff, well assuming they where eaten during the same time. Also I think the sharp edges are a thread, if they go trough wrong, I think there is a risk of it ripping apart the gut. BUT I'm not a doctor. Of course there is the simple solution of not buying unsafe toys (or letting kids play unsupervised.)
- CatMtKing 13y agoThe stomach wall is a possible point of damage as well, with its many soft tissue folds...
- spc476 13y agoYou might think, but no, they might not necessarily attract each other in the stomach. An ex-girlfriend's kid ate two magnets (http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/12.1 http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/12.1) and they ended up separating, then attracting each other in different parts of the body (http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/20.1 http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/20.1).