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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Douglas Whitbread & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Mum fears her daughter's organs could be damaged after swallowing magnets in TikTok trend

A mum fears her daughter's internal organs could be damaged after she accidentally swallowed magnets while trying out a viral TikTok trend.

Kelly Sheldon from Bacup, Lancashire, said 14-year-old Tia had been at school when she stuck two magnetic balls on her tongue - one on each side - to look like a piercing.

But she ended up swallowing the balls after taking a drink of water and, on the advice of NHS call handlers, was rushed to hospital.

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