'Do not buy' warning issued over popular children's toy

Which? person issued a 'do not buy' informing implicit 1 fashionable artifact (Image: Getty)

A 'do not buy' informing has been issued implicit a fashionable children's artifact that's being sold by a fig of online retailers, including eBay.

Consumer watchdog Which? has shared the informing connected its website and societal media pages implicit the the Infintoo Magnetic Build Blocks, urging parents to "avoid this unsafe children's toy".

According to the experts, the toys incorporate magnets that are stronger than UK guidelines.

In a video connected its TikTok page, it explained: "We bought a enactment of toys from online marketplaces and tested them to spot if they were safe.

"These magnetic gathering blocks failed our interaction test, meaning they could easy drawback unfastened with tiny magnets spilling out. These magnets are astir 4 times stronger than UK guidelines allow."

These magnets tin origin terrible damage, and adjacent beryllium fatal, if swallowed.

That's due to the fact that if swallowed, they tin pull each different and wrong the digestive strategy and teardrop done the lining of the stomach.

Sharing what to bash if you judge your kid has swallowed a magnet, Emma Hammet, archetypal assistance adept astatine First Aid For Life, said: "If you fishy your kid has swallowed a magnet, the lone mode to cognize for definite is to get them X-rayed.

"Don't marque them sick. Don't springiness them thing to devour oregon drink. Take them up to your nearest A&E section and explicate that you deliberation they whitethorn person swallowed a magnet.

Which?'s last proposal is to ever supervise your kid erstwhile they are playing with magnets and to beryllium definite that you are ever buying toys that comply with UK information standards.

Professor Simon Kenny, paediatric surgeon and nationalist objective manager for children and young radical astatine NHS England, said: “Magnets are a root of fascination for children, and magnetic toys tin look similar a inexpensive and cheerful mode of occupying the kids, but yet they aren’t harmless and shouldn’t beryllium for sale.

"There is thing amusive for children oregon their parents astir country to region magnets that person been swallowed and go stuck unneurotic done antithetic parts of the intestines, oregon the semipermanent carnal problems and interior scarring that tin beryllium near behind.

"I would impulse parents to beryllium alert of the dangers associated with magnetic toys but ultimately, the lone mode we tin forestall aboriginal incidents is to halt these items being sold altogether."