My daughter was left brain damaged after secretly swallowing her big sister's popular toy

A parent is speaking retired astir a fashionable children's artifact that near her girl with encephalon damage.

Kipley Haugen, an eight-year-old successful Texas, suffered encephalon harm aft swallowing h2o beads that got stuck successful her intestines and unopen disconnected humor proviso to her brain.

She is present near with code delays, arsenic good arsenic musculus weakness and occupation walking. 

Doctors judge the 'toxic' materials utilized to marque the beads whitethorn person attacked her tense strategy and killed encephalon cells, starring to cognitive issues. 

Her mother, Ashley Haugen, present runs an advocacy radical focused connected banning the toys.

She told CBS News: 'It breaks my heart, what happened to Kipley. And for me, it's been precise healing to beryllium capable to cognize that that symptom has a purpose.'

It each started erstwhile Kipley was conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aged and developed a mysterious rash and started waking up aggregate times passim the night.

Weeks later, Kipley began projectile vomiting truthful violently that she couldn't clasp down immoderate nutrient oregon water. 

Surgery revealed Kipley had secretly swallowed h2o beads - tiny absorbant balls that grow successful water - that her older sister had received arsenic a day gift.

Mrs Haugen and her hubby were shocked, arsenic Kipley's older sister, Abigail, was supervised portion she played with the beads, and they were kept distant from Kipley. 

The beads ballooned successful size and caused a blockage successful Kipley's tiny intestine. Left untreated, this tin origin the bowel to dice and chopped disconnected humor proviso to the intestines. 

Kipley's country went arsenic program and doctors successfully removed each of the h2o bead fragments from her intestine. But 4 months later, Kipley started losing her equilibrium and stopped responding to her sanction and eating her favourite foods.   

Mrs Haugen wrote connected her advocacy website The Water Bead Lady: 'My bosom sank. We were losing her.' 

After developmental screening, Kipley was diagnosed with toxic encephalon encephalopathy, which whitethorn person chopped disconnected humor travel and oxygen to her brain.

Writing astir Kipley's lawsuit successful a medical journal this month, doctors wrote that the chemicals utilized to marque the h2o beads - polyacrylamide and acrylamide  - are 'known neurotoxins' that whitethorn person disrupted her mean cognitive relation and caused imperishable damage.

Now 8 years old, Kipley has connection and centrifugal delays, arsenic good arsenic musculus weakness, though Mrs Haugen told CBS News she 'has made a batch of progress.' 

Mrs Haugen is present utilizing her nonprofit to rise consciousness of the dangers of h2o beads and forestall injuries successful different children.

She wrote connected her website: 'We grieve for the babe [Kipley] utilized to be, it is agonizing to deliberation of the symptom she endured, and the challenges she continues to look each day. 

'Our communicative is simply a informing I anticipation you hear. Water beads should not beryllium utilized for play.'

Water beads are typically the size of a pencil tip, but erstwhile they get wet, they tin grow up to 400 times their size. 

So, if they're swallowed they tin get lodged successful a child's airway, causing them to halt breathing, oregon go stuck successful the intestine, starring to a life-threatening obstruction.

The toys sent an estimated 7,800 children successful the US to the exigency country betwixt 2016 and 2022, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Polyacrylamide and acrylamide are synthetic molecules utilized to marque products similar h2o beads absorbant and expandable. 

While the effects inactive are not good known, caller probe has shown vulnerability tin pb to neurotoxicity, neurological harm from toxins. 

The researchers successful Kipley's lawsuit study wrote: 'Because acrylamide monomer tin origin neurotoxicity, immoderate uses of polyacrylamide and the amounts of acrylamide permitted to contaminate it are regulated, but residual acrylamide and polyacrylamide utilized successful h2o beads are not. 

'We urge a prohibition connected the merchantability and selling of children’s toys containing h2o beads and that the hazards associated with ingestion beryllium intelligibly labeled connected each products that incorporate h2o beads.' 

Mrs Haugen and Kipley person urged lawmakers to prohibition h2o bead income to forestall further injuries.

Kipley told CBS News: 'Please enactment unneurotic to prohibition h2o beads. Lots of kids similar maine got hurt.'