Magnetix Toy Warning

Young children should be kept away from a popular toy called Magnetix, a play set of magnetized building blocks, Seattle public health officials and pediatricians warned Thursday. A Seattle coroner discovered during autopsy last year how two tiny magnets that had come from Magnetix pieces had punctured and twisted the intestine of a 22-month-old boy, Kenneth Sweet, leading to the boy's death by infection.

Last week, a 5-year-old boy was admitted for emergency surgery at Seattle's Childrens Hospital to remove what turned out to be more ingested Magnetix magnets. Click here for more information.