Swallowed Magnets Attract Trouble In Boy's Stomach, Surgeons Urge VigilanceFour-year-old Braden Eberle of San Jose holds a pair of small, rare-earth magnets, similar to the ones he swallowed in 2007. The magnets snapped together in his intestinal tract, pinching the tissue. (Credit: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital) ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2008) — Four-year-old Braden Eberle was worried. “Mom, I swallowed something,” said the San Jose boy. His mother, Jill, reassured him when she learned that it was just a tiny magnet that had slipped loose from a construction-type toy. But the next day, he swallowed another. “I didn’t think anything of...