What is a water bead? A mom is warning other parents after the toy grew in her daughter's body and caused both sepsis and an infection.
A Maine woman is warning about the dangers of small children ingesting water beads, and is calling on a bead manufacturer to add additional warnings to its product as her infant daughter fights for her life after swallowing one.her daughter needed three emergency surgeries after a bead, which grew in her body, blocked her small intestines and caused both sepsis and an infection.
Mitchell's daughter swallowed a bead from the Ultimate Water Beads brand made by Chuckle and Roar, a manufacturer whose products are sold exclusively at Target. She says she bought the beads as a sensory tool for her 8-year-old son, who she says is on the Autism spectrum. "The doctors are saying that it's really just an hour-by-hour, day-by-day kind of situation, and we don't really know what the next hour will bring or if some of her levels will crash or if an organ will start being affected because of the infection," Mitchell said of her daughter's current condition.
"Parents don't have the chance to make an informed choice before buying," Mitchell said. "If I had seen 'toxic if ingested,' 'seek medical attention,' 'can cause blockage,' I never would have bought them and brought them into my house.
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