Doctors remove beads from boys' bladders
Doctors from Xinhua Hospital said they had dealt with two cases recently of 11-year-old boys playing with magnetic beads and inserting them into their penises.
Doctors said parents should warn children about the risk and make sure they had proper sex education.
The first boy came to the hospital presenting with frequent urinary tract infections. When doctors checked, they found metal beads inside his bladder.
Ten beads were removed through surgery.
The boy said he had been playing with the beads and had inserted them in his penis for fun. He couldn't get them out and had been too shy to tell his parents.
A second boy had 34 magnetic in his bladder. He said he found it was interesting how he would make the beads vanish.
Dr Geng Hongquan, director of Xinhua’s urinary surgery department, said the hospital has dealt with several such cases in recent years and there was a need for parents and schools to enhance health education and sex education for children going through puberty.
An X-ray shows magnetic beads inside a boy's bladder and after they were removed.
