A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand is recovering after surgeons removed up to 100 high-power magnets that he bought on Temu from his intestines. It’s hard to believe how negligent a major retailer can be, allowing a product that’s been banned for over a decade in that country to be sold directly to a child.
The new victim of Temu is a kid who suffered for four days with intense abdominal pain before he was finally rushed to Tauranga hospital. The report from the hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal makes it clear how serious this was: he “disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior,” and what happened inside him is the stuff of nightmares.
