Even seemingly harmless household items like coins and magnets pose serious risks to children who often swallow them ...

As every parent knows, kids like to swallow things. Much of the time, the foreign objects safely pass through the child’s gastrointestinal tract without difficulty—especially if the ingested object is ...

Gulp. A study published in Pediatrics showed that the rate of young kids going to emergency departments for swallowing non-food items more than doubled from 1995 to 2015. And most of these non-food ...

Chicago – The number of young kids who went to U.S. emergency rooms because they swallowed toys, coins, batteries and other objects has nearly doubled, a new study says. In 2015, there were nearly ...

Health and safety experts in the United States are alarmed at the rise of foreign-body ingestions cases among young children over the past two decades. The number of children under the age of six ...

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Researchers have discovered a worrying trend. The number of young children who are brought to the emergency room after swallowing a small object has doubled. In 1995, 22,000 children under the age of ...

According to a new study in the journal Pediatrics, the rate of foreign-body ingestions among children under age 6 nearly doubled in the two decades after 1995. By Christina Caron [For more ...

One of the most common reasons kids need emergency care can give parents a real scare. It happens when children swallow objects they shouldn’t. Researchers from the American Academy of Pediatrics ...