Magnets are not included on the food pyramid, but we’d assume eating even one is too much.
A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand ate way, way more than that, which, as The Guardian reports, landed him in surgery.
The operation was detailed in a study published by the New Zealand Medical Journal, which stated that the boy had ingested around 80 to 100 magnets.
“These appeared to be in separate parts of bowel adhered together due to magnetic forces,” the hospital doctors say.
The particular magnets that the boy ate have been banned from New Zealand since 2013. They were reportedly ordered online via Temu.
“We have launched an internal review and reached out to the authors of the New Zealand Medical Journal article to obtain more details about the case,” a Temu spokesperson says.
As for the boy, the magnets were removed and he returned home from the hospital after eight days.