Parents are being urged to avoid buying magnetic toys for Christmas after the number of children needing operations after swallowing them has surged.Surgeons have called for schools to ban the magnets and warned some kids had mistakenly swallowed them after copying TikTok influencers.Cases in children ingesting magnets have increased fivefold over the past five years, research by the Children's Surgery Foundation states.Hospital figures from four centres in the southeast of England reveal 251 children were admitted after swallowing objects between 2016 and 2020.Of these admissions, 52 children or 21% had swallowed magnets, 93 cases or 37% were coins and 17% or 42 cases were button batteries.Children may swallow brightly coloured magnets.
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