Fidget Spinners and Other Ingested Foreign Objects (S1:E7)

Sep 12, 2017

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