An 11-year-old boy is fighting to stay alive when he tried a very dangerous and “deadly”, as it is characterized, challenge on TikTok.
Little Ellis Tripp from England swallowed some magnetic balls when he accepted the challenge that wants young people to pretend that they have pierced their tongues.
The 11-year-old put them on magnets above and below his tongue, but swallowed five of them, with Amy Clarke’s 31-year-old mother saying TikTok’s provocation “could have killed him”.
The little boy underwent two emergency surgeries, but remains in the hospital in critical condition, fighting the infection.
The viral challenge has to do with the piercing of the tongue, children pretend to have earrings on the tongue by placing magnetic balls above and below their tongue.
But Ellis swallowed the “Magneto Balls” and felt unwell for a whole week, before rushing in for surgery in Birmingham last Wednesday.
The doctors located the magnets and were concerned about the size of the damage they had caused to the child’s body. They removed 3 of the 5 balls and the little one underwent a new operation on Saturday, to remove the other two.
“Please talk to your children and tell them how dangerous they are. “Magneto Beads are deadly if swallowed,” his mother wrote in Facebook…
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