Teen boy inserted 70 magnetic balls into his penis, out of curiosity

Children are often curious by nature. Their curiosity leads them to discover things independently and even helps shape their minds. However, curiosity can also lead to disastrous events. In March 2019, this is precisely what happened with an 11-year-old boy whose curiosity got the better of him and he ended up paying a painful price for it.

A child’s curiosity

It is not rare for hospitals to receive patients who needed emergency help because they inserted a foreign object where it doesn’t belong. According to News18, the boy from Southeastern China, complained of an intense stomach ache to his mother. She, then, rushed her son to Zhejiang University’s School of Medicine Affiliated Children’s Hospital.

The doctors took a look at the boy and proceeded to do an X-ray. However, what was revealed in the X-ray report, left their mouth hanging open. The results revealed several lumps of foreign objects in the boy’s bladder. When asked, the boy confessed that he inserted magnetic balls in his penis ‘out of curiousity’.

70 magnetic balls

After the boy came clean, he was rushed to surgery, where the doctors performed a two-hour operation and removed 70 magnetic balls from his body. As per lead surgeon, Tao Chang, the medical team had quite a difficulty while performing the surgery:

The balls stick to each other and it’s difficult to remove them as a whole lump, so at the beginning, we could only pick up two or three at a time

After we had taken out around 50 balls, the remaining ones formed a line and we took those out in one go

However, this is not the first time a person had inserted a foreign object up to the body’s orifice, where it didn’t belong. The doctors have seen many similar cases where the patient is usually between 10 to 15 years of age.

Sources used:

News18, 'Doctors Remove 70 Magnetic Balls from 11-Year-Old Boy's Bladder in China'

Ati, '11-Year-Old Chinese Boy Has 70 Magnetic Balls Surgically Removed From His Penis'

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