Medical alert: More children in UAE at risk from swallowing multiple magnets ...United Arab Emirates

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Abu Dhabi: Swallowing multiple magnets can cause serious complications, and parents and guardians need to be especially vigilant because there has been an exponential increase in cases over the last few years. In Abu Dhabi, the number of multiple magnet ingestion cases reported to referral hospitals in the emirate grew from one in 2016 to 14 in 2019, with patients suffering from serious complications like obstructions, fistulas and even bowel gangrene, said Dr Nafea Alyasi, paediatric gastroenterology fellow at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC). Entirely preventable “The good thing is that these are entirely preventable with awareness and caution,” Dr Alyasi said at a recent paediatric con

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