On a personal example: six pediatricians swallowed Lego details
Six Australian pediatricians decided to find out the speed at which small details from the designer's favorite Lego children pass through the esophagus and intestines. They are often swallowed by tots in all countries of the world, in connection with which parents experience and turn to doctors with questions about what to do next. Doctors decided to experiment on themselves, and swallowed a few heads from the Lego men.
Thus, children's doctors decided to show that Circuits from the world-famous designer can not affect the intestinal state of the child. Experimental doctors had to wait about 1-3 days for the parts to leave their organisms in a completely natural way. At the same time, in five of the six doctors, the details came out in full, and one did not come out at all, but it is possible that the doctor simply did not find it in the stool.
The experiment was set to calm the parents, but it doesn’t completely eliminate the excitement, because every day adults go to hospitals who injure their feet and toes, inadvertently stepping on scattered parts from the popular designer. And there's nothing to be done.
If a child swallows durable plastic figures, then there should be no reason to worry, independent experts at The Journal of Pediatrics and Child Healt believe. They followed the bold experiment of pediatricians swallowing toys, and are confident that harm from swallowed baby parts from the designer is greatly exaggerated.
But you should pay attention to the statistics of the experiment: if an adult who has a longer gastrointestinal tract, it took an average of 1.7 days to pass the toy and its release from the body, then for children this speed will be even greater the digestive tract is shorter, that is, the toy will leave the body even earlier.
Nevertheless, doctors warned that nothing from the experiment of doctors to repeat at home is not necessary. It is also important to ensure that the child plays a real constructor, which is made of high-quality and safe plasticand not numerous fakes under Lego, which are produced from cheap toxic plastic. Harm in the intestines will not cause only this quality material.
It is also impossible to consider the parts safe if the child does not swallow them, but stuffs them in the nose, ears. In this case, you can not hesitate - the baby should immediately receive medical care.
