Jude was in hospital for weeks after swallowing the popular mini magnets in August.
Ms Foley, 34, from Merthyr Tydfil, said she became concerned after her son, now five, had recurring bouts of sickness over an eight week period this summer.Blood tests and physical examinations appeared normal until something appeared on an x-ray."The doctor thought that he was lying on a necklace at first but upon looking at it, I knew straight away that it was these beads," she said.
"Then within five minutes the doctors were arranging for an ambulance to take us down to the Children's Hospital in Cardiff.Ms Foley said she had bought the magnetic beads toy for her eight-year-old daughter Poppy. The toys are popular with children, with a variety of videos on YouTube showing how you can make shapes, objects and houses with with the tiny magnetic balls.
Lyndsey however had no idea her son had been swallowing "one or two, here or there" over the space of a couple of months."Due to the nature of the bowel and the force of the beads, it was tearing holes in his bowel which was causing his bowel to leak so an infection was spreading through his body. He was getting poisoned."Jude could not eat anything and was bed-bound for seven days during his two-week hospital stay.His mother said: "He was in pain.
"I am very lucky Jude has no long-term health affects, but the surgeon did warn us that he may have had a colostomy bag for life or he could have been on monthly vitamin injections because of the shortness of the bowel."
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