Posted on 11/29/2018 12:17:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Pediatricians have to deal with all kinds of interesting situations in their daily work with children, and kids eating random objects is one of them. Children just love to stick stuff in their mouths, and while parents do their best to keep tiny toys away from eager eaters theres always a chance that something like a Lego finds its way into the stomach of a youngster.
A half-dozen pediatricians decided to see what effect, if any, a tiny yellow Lego head would have on their own bodies by volunteering to swallow them. Their findings were reported in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.
The primary goal of the research was to see how long it takes for a tiny toy like a Lego to find its way through the human body. To do this, the pediatricians swallowed the toys and then monitored their bowel movements over the following days until they located the toy.
Since they were eating toys and poking through their own poop the team decided to have a bit of fun with the nomenclature. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardized by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score, the study read. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.
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Thank you for sifting through the article...or for your eyewitness account! I suspect across the Chickadees you’ve had plenty of experience.
Corn works as well, just don’t chew.
Shhhhhh. Do not tell my little girl about this test. She has a zillion LEGO heads and bodies, frequently apart from one another.
Also, inquiring minds... how much federal funding went to this crappy experiment?
O my gosh!
Cruel and unusual!
The store should be thrown in prison!
LMAO!
To find the Lego in their stool, they stepped on it...in the dark.
Somebody really needed to publish a paper.
Sounds like a San Fagsicko party stunt to me.
I looked at the full article. I never bother to check on the digestion of foreign objects. That’s between the eater and his or her bowels.
Nobody ever turned up with symptoms that required emergency medical care.
Wouldn’t they be Heados, not Legos ?
I know, just as stupid as their study.
This story was in the Guinness Book of World Records for years:
http://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19660217-V143-07.pdf
They gave him a careful checkup, thenbelieve it or notrecovered 258 objects from his stomach. Included in the items were 26 keys, 39 nail files, three sets of rosary beads, 16 religious medals, one bracelet, one necklace, three metal chains, one beer-can opener, one knife blade, four nail clippers, three pairs of tweezers, and 88 assorted coins.
There’s no way I’d put my name on a research paper on this.
My worst enemy’s?? In a heartbeat!
As a result my wood floors were remarkably free of Lego's.
Cat: Hey Ralph
You see what the humans are up to?
Dog: Yeah
And they call us dumb!
I applaud these Doctors for their inguinity in getting their message out, and for their sense of humour. SHAT and FART scores, indeed! Also: “no turd went unturned”. I doubt they got grant money for this.
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