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BetsyB
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Surgery Saved Girl Who Swallowed Magnets
Aug 15 2007 12:39PM
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - A family filed a lawsuit against the Mattel toy company after a 9-year-old girl swallowed magnets from one of the company's recently recalled toys.
Paige Kostrzewski needed surgery in 2005 after she swallowed magnets from a Polly Pockets play set, 10TV News reported.
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The set was one of several different products recalled by Mattel earlier this week.
The Kostrzewski family said that after Paige swallowed the magnets, they attached to the inside of her intestine.
According to doctors who operated on Kostrzewski, if the girl would have waited a few more days to get the surgery, she may have died, 10TV News reported.
The Kostrzewski family later filed a lawsuit against Mattel to help pay for the girl's $35,000 medical bill, 10TV News reported.
Mattel later settled with the family for an undisclosed amount.
Misty May, Kostrzewski's mother, said her daughter is recovering from the ordeal.
"I'm happy it's off the market, but I'm not happy it took so long," May said. "No one should have to go through that over a toy.
Kostrzewski was one of three children nationwide who swallowed two or more magnets.

Posted 4 years ago #
Coremodels
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The CEO of the Chinese company that manufactures these hung himself when the recall was announced.

Posted 4 years ago #
BetsyB
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FYI: This 9 year old girl swallowed what is imitation poop that the fake dog pretends to poop out. One of my son's friends has this toy and I think as long as the parent's explain that you shouldn't eat poop even fake magnetic poop to their children we wouldn't have a problem.

Posted 4 years ago #
Walker
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Coremodels wrote The CEO of the Chinese company that manufactures these hung himself when the recall was announced.
If only American CEOs were capible of displaying such drastic shows of disgrace.

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Billionaire_Bot
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It's been awhile since I have been 7 years old, but I would think kids would have enough sense not to eat their toys at that age? amiright?

Posted 4 years ago #
Daz
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Billionaire_Bot wrote It's been awhile since I have been 7 years old, but I would think kids would have enough sense not to eat their toys at that age? amiright?
Exactly what I was thinking, and this girl was 9!!!
I thought that urge went away when you were like... 3.

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myliftkk
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BetsyB wrote The Kostrzewski family said that after Paige swallowed the magnets, they attached to the inside of her intestine.
:? What exactly did the magnets "stick" to in her intestine? Did the girl have an iron spleen or something?
BetsyB wrote "I'm happy it's off the market, but I'm not happy it took so long," May said. "No one should have to go through that over a toy."
I'm not sure why this woman's so relieved? I mean her child did just consume a rare earth magnet in the same manner one might a sweet tart. When the girl swallows the next round disc like thing that comes her way, say a table top hockey puck, silver dollar, or a ruffie, what's she gonna say then?
BetsyB wrote Kostrzewski was one of three children nationwide who swallowed two or more magnets.
Proves the point that most children survived their encounters with the Mattel toys with their intestines intacts. Why, oh why, won't people just let natural selection do its work :roll:
Put 'em out in the yard and give 'em sharp sticks to play with. Nature will take its course :D

Posted 4 years ago #
Anne
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I read that when you swallow more than one, the magnets will pull and stick together, potentially perforating your intestines, etc. Pretty nasty.
All the more reasons not to buy the cheap crap that comes out of China. There are plenty of other sorts of toys that actually engage a child's mind and do not involve all the wasteful plastic and packaging.

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Billionaire_Bot
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Good luck trying to find toys NOT coming from China. I'm pretty sure the only two things on my desk not made in China are a Granny Smith apple from South America and a pack of Orbit gum from Canada.

Posted 4 years ago #
vestanpance
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Billionaire_Bot wrote Good luck trying to find toys NOT coming from China. I'm pretty sure the only two things on my desk not made in China are a Granny Smith apple from South America and a pack of Orbit gum from Canada.
the raw materials for the packaging for that gum prob come from china :)
Aye the Chinese have had a bad run in the US press lately for crap products, but if we want our "wal-mart" prices the stuff has to keep coming.

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myliftkk
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I'm not sure cheap really describes most toys these days either, especially after going into most modern day child toy stores. I can't hardly walk down their epilepsy inducing aisles without feeling the urge to curl up and foam at the mouth.
It's more like simple vs. non-simple. Do you want blocks... or technics... or does it really even matter? Whether the kid swallows a magnet(s), or in the case of my little brother, he launches himself off the living room chair head-first into a pile of wooden blocks, then end result is the same. ER here we come.
If I remember right, the characters in the Laura Ignalls Wilder (sic) books only got like a tin cup, a piece of candy, and some salt pork for their birthdays and they were HAPPY goddamnit! :) After all, Copernicus figured out the heliocentric theory and I highly doubt he got to watch Baby Einstein videos as he grew up. :roll:

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Billionaire_Bot
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the raw materials for the packaging for that gum prob come from china :)
Great, I'm probably ingesting lead paint particles as we speak.
Aye the Chinese have had a bad run in the US press lately for crap products, but if we want our "wal-mart" prices the stuff has to keep coming.
Yeah, it sucks that low prices is all anyone ever cares about. I like quality and am glad to pay for it when I can.....it seems to be a more economical (read: long-run cheap) choice to me.

Posted 4 years ago #
Anne
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myliftkk wrote After all, Copernicus figured out the heliocentric theory and I highly doubt he got to watch Baby Einstein videos as he grew up. :roll:
That was probably a good thing that he didn't have to watch these videos.

Posted 4 years ago #
Anne
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Billionaire_Bot wrote Good luck trying to find toys NOT coming from China.
Not to say he doesn't have any toys from China, but this store doesn't have any of the recalled junk:
Dispatch wrote Greg Larson, owner of Larson's Toys and Games in Upper Arlington, searched his store for recalled items but found none. Still, he worried that people might cross toys off their Christmas shopping lists.
I think people just need to start caring about where they buy stuff.

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BetsyB
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Larson's has great toys and activities for kids. I like their store because the toys are usually simple things that keep kids busy (like making potholders) plus they have fun learning games as well. The quality of the toys is great, ex. toys made out of wood instead of plastic. In addition if you get on their mailing list, they send you coupons throughout the year.

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