Although social networks offer many good things for people of all ages, they also have a negative part if they are not known to use them properly. In recent years we have experienced a multitude of challenges that in some cases, unfortunately, have ended the lives of children and adolescents. This week UK media have warned of a new viral challenge that has forced part of the intestines to be removed from two 11 and 13-year-old boys after they both ingested small magnets. To understand what exactly has happened, what The first is to know what the challenge that has gone viral on social networks consists of. It is aimed at children and adolescents, and what it is about is to make parents believe that they have gotten a piercing and, of course, record their reaction, what they do is put on a fake piercing to make them believe that they have been pierced really. And for this they use magnetic earrings, which carry a small ball on the outside, and another magnetized one that is placed inside the mouth to hold the first one. Experts warn of the great danger of this viral challenge since it is very easy to ingest the small magnets by accident and, as has happened to these children, having to undergo surgery to remove part of the intestines. The first case was that of an 11-year-old boy from Worcester, who had to undergo emergency surgery, and surgeons explained to local media that even the magnets stuck to the instruments. The little boy had a serious infection and internal damage to the intestines. The boy’s mother, Amy Clarke, posted the following message on social media to warn of the challenge that nearly cost her son his life: “This is a nightmare.This TikTok craze could have killed him if it had taken us longer. Please talk to your children and tell them how dangerous magnetic pearls are, that they are deadly if swallowed. ”A few days later the case of a 13-year-old boy from Liverpool was recorded, who was later rushed by his parents that he had severe stomach pains and vomited black waste. At the hospital, the doctors found that he had 15 small magnetic balls embedded in his intestine. They had to operate immediately and remove part of his intestine.
