A 13-year-old in New Zealand recently swallowed nearly 200 high-powered neodymium magnets. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t accidentally stumble upon a new health supplement that increased his vigor and tripled his vim. He needed some of his bowels extracted.

According to a recent case report published in The New Zealand Medical Journal, doctors at Tauranga Hospital had to go on a scavenger hunt in the kid’s abdomen, discovering four separate linear chains of metal objects.

Once inside, these tiny, brightly colored magnets, which are often marketed as harmless toys, did what magnets do. They are attracted to each other. Not only did they connect, they forcefully squeezed separated loops of the boy’s small bowel and caecum together.

This created patches of pressure necrosis, the medical term fo

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