Bizarre: Boy swallows 54 magnetic balls to see if he turns 'magnetic', undergoes life saving surgery

Bizarre: Boy swallows 54 magnetic balls to see if he turns 'magnetic', undergoes life saving surgery

Rhiley is crazy about science and loves to experiment with different objects.

A 12-year-old boy from the UK nearly died after swallowing magnetic balls to see if he could become magnetic.

Rhiley Morrison had to undergo a 6-hour life-saving surgery after having ingested as many as 54 magnetic balls to see if he could get metal to stick to his stomach, said reports.

Rhiley ingested magnetic balls on two separate occasions to see if he becomes 'magnetic' and how they would look like when he went to the toilet.

He swallowed the first batch on January 1 and the second batch on January 4. Just four days later, Rhiley realised that he was unable to pass the magnetic balls and told his mother, Paige Ward, that he had swallowed them by accident.

Paige took Rhiley to a hospital where doctors did an X-ray on the 12-year-old and found some shocking results. The scan revealed the small magnetic balls were lodged in Rhiley's stomach and bowel.

Fearing the magnets could burn through the boy's tissue or vital organs, the doctors decided to perform emergency surgery. It took more than 6 hours to remove all the magnets from the 12-year-old's stomach.

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"I was gobsmacked, just speechless when I heard the number he'd swallowed. The doctors guessed around 25-30 from the x-ray, but when he came out of surgery they said they got 54. I think what made it harder is that I just didn't understand how or why he would swallow that many,” said the mother after the life-saving surgery.

She added that Rhiley is crazy about science and loves to experiment with different objects.

"Rhiley is massively into science, he loves experiments, he eventually admitted 'I tried to stick magnets to me, I wanted to see if this copper would stick to my belly while the magnets were in'. It's just so silly, but he's a child and that's what kids do. He also thought it would be fun seeing them come out the other end," she added.

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