Articles tagged with 'foreign bodies' | Checkup Newsroom

"Mommy, I swallowed some magnets." When 4-year-old Coralie admitted what she'd done, her mom, Alysha Varley, didn't hesitate to go straight to the internet. After all, it wasn't long ago that Coralie told her mom she'd …

Last year, more than 470 children visited the Cook Children’s Emergency Department after swallowing “a foreign body.” Corwin Warmink, M.D., medical director of Emergency Services at Cook Children’s, said not a day goes by …