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14th February 2018
10:32am GMT

A warning comes after a boy in the UK had to undergo surgery to remove metal balls from his stomach that he swallowed.
12-year-old Freddie Webster swallowed two sets of magnetic balls as part of the game. A few days later he complained about stomach pains which led to him having to get lifesaving surgery after it was established that the balls tore a hole in his stomach.
Freddie's paediatric consultant Marcin Kazmierski said that this was the fourth case the hospital had dealt with in the last few months. She told The Sun:
"I feel cautious about what I can do after the operation. I think these magnets should be banned in every country. I know a lot of people who have them and they put them in their mouths, noses and even in their eyelids."
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