These doctors intentionally swallowed Lego heads — for science.
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00:00We just swallowed the Lego heads, not the bricks, just the heads.
00:26We wouldn't advise swallowing anything at all, and we haven't experimented on ourselves
00:31to swallow anything larger than a Lego head.
00:47Our FART score, our found and retrieved time score, was 1.7 days.
00:52Kids have guts that work a little bit faster, so they might actually pass it a bit sooner
00:56than that.
01:07One of the things that commonly comes into the emergency department are children who
01:10have swallowed something that they're not supposed to swallow.
01:14Parents get quite concerned when this happens.
01:16Generally speaking, if it's gone down without any pain, without any coughing or choking,
01:20it's likely to come out the other end.
01:31This is quite a light-hearted study, and it was meant as a bit of fun, but the serious
01:36message there is that if your child swallows something that looks metal and shiny, and
01:40it could be a button battery, we'd advise that you seek immediate medical advice.