What happens when you accidentally swallow a LEGO plastic?

The fact that children swallow animals is always an obsession with parents. Due to their hyperactive nature, items such as toys, coins . always pose a danger to children if accidentally swallowed.

According to reports based on data from doctors from Don't Forget the Bubble blog, necessary information for parents and families if unfortunately swallowing coins (the most common type of object) , on average It will take two weeks for the body to expel it.

But as long as small plastic toys, such as LEGO assembly pieces, take a long time to get rid of, it is still a question that has no answer.

Be aware, plastic made of LEGO is durable enough to not attack stomach stomachs too much . So the LEGO piece will definitely be eliminated, though the time is unknown.

Children who swallow LEGO are not rare.

Therefore, a small study published in the scientific journal Paediatrics and Child Health answered. They performed experiments on 6 volunteers who were also medical professionals in the field of pediatrics (no one had a history of gastrointestinal disease).

They are required to swallow a LEGO-shaped human head, and keep track of how long it takes to eliminate this type of alien.

Each volunteer will self-assess their excretion process through 3 days of monitoring through a SHAT (Stool Hardness and Transit) score . A person with a high SHAT score will have a positive excretion process - which means that the Lego piece will be discharged through the bowel movement process more quickly.

And after the elimination process, the volunteers will evaluate the Found and Retrived Time Score (FART) again to calculate the amount of time it takes for the piece of toy to go out of the body through the gastrointestinal tract.

Not to mention, every volunteer must " find himself" to find that Lego piece from his . waste in different ways, such as tongue sticks, gloves or even chopsticks to take them out.

The path of the foreign object through the digestive system.

On average, the process from swallowing to discharging this LEGO piece will take about 1.71 days. The researchers also said there was no clear correlation between the two scales, SHAT and FART.

However, one of the 6 volunteers could not find the Lego piece of toys after rummaging through to . crush the pile of waste products in WC.

"Probably one day, a doctor will see a LEGO head when he is colonoscopy," the research team wrote on the blog.

For adults, the object does not seem to leave any complications and will be excreted from the body thanks to their size.

In conclusion, the toy object when adults swallow it does not seem to leave any complications and will be excreted from the body thanks to their size. However, it is possible that with the body of children is another problem, so there will need to be some more experiments in the future.

In addition, this result is also a reminder of the screening for the digestive system of adults after the age of 45 years - both to check abnormalities and also to have strange foreign objects that they unfortunately swallow.