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Stick-on earrings seem like a safe enough alternative to getting your kid’s ears pierced at a young age, but that doesn’t mean they are without risk. A 6-year-old girl found this the hard way recently, when she started feeling a discomfort inside her ear. Her mother took a peek inside and saw a glistening object lodged in the ear canal. She rushed her to the doctor to find that it was a stick-on earring that was dangerously close to the eardrum. To get it out, they had to put the kid under full-body anesthesia. Let’s hear more.

Mother
Daughter got sticker inside ear
The doctor said that the sticker was extremely close to the eardrum and couldn’t be pulled out. They were afraid that if they tried to pry it out, it could hurt the eardrum if she moved. When I saw it was a shiny red object, I guessed that it was something like this. I didn’t buy her the stickers, they were a gift she got at her cram school. I initially thought she had put it inside her ear on purpose, but she said she hadn’t. Maybe she tried to stick it on and it fell inside.

Lin Yung-zen
Pediatrician
If a sharp object punctures the eardrum, it can cause an infection. Over time, the body would secrete fluids and perhaps even form a membrane that covers up the entire object.

And sticker earrings aren’t the only hidden danger. Magnetic ball bearings are also quite popular as construction toys, but also quite dangerous for kids. A boy was recently reported to have swallowed 10 whole bearings, which became stuck together into a bar in his belly and ruptured a hole in his intestine. And you should also be very careful with water beads that swell when submerged in water. Another boy was also taken to the hospital after ingesting the beads, which swelled inside his body and blocked his guts.

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