In this episode, Robert Kramer, MD, talks about the dangers of kids and adolescents swallowing common household toys and a recent case involving ingested fidget spinner parts. Dr. Kramer is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Colorado.
In this episode:
- Recent cases of patients ingesting fidget spinner parts
- Dangers of ingesting button batteries and other small components
- Why magnets represent a special threat for kids
- Age groups impacted by incidental ingestion of objects
- Batteries ingested into the gastrointestinal tract and how to manage them
- Types of injuries that can occur beyond damage to the blood vessels
- The importance of getting the battery out as soon as possible after ingestion
