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Mom Hears Retching Noise In Back Seat, Then Realizes Daughter Is Choking On Fidget Spinner

Kelly Rose Joniec was in the car with her daughter when she suddenly heard a choking noise coming from the back seat.
She turned around to see her daughter struggling to breathe — she was choking on a piece of her fidget spinner.
After rushing to the hospital, Kelly posted what happened on Facebook.
Within two days, her post had over 61,000 reactions and almost 525,000 shares.
fidget spinner piece
Kelly wrote:
We had a pretty eventful Saturday.
On the way home from a fun swim meet, I heard Britton make an odd retching noise in the back seat as I was driving.
Looking back in the mirror, I saw her face turning red and drool pouring from her mouth – she could utter noises but looked panicked so I immediately pulled over.
pink fidget spinner
She pointed to her throat saying she’d swallowed something, so I attempted Heimlich but there was no resistance.
She said she’d put part of her fidget spinner in her mouth to clean it and somehow swallowed it.
Frantic, I went straight to urgent care where they checked her for choking.
They couldn’t discern where the foreign object was located – along the airway or the esophagus.
ambulance hospital
From there we got the red-light treatment via ambulance to Texas Children’s Hospital.
X-ray showed the spinner bushing lodged in her esophagus.
The GI doctor was fascinated… He’d only just learned of fidget spinners that morning when he was at the mall with his son, so it was a surprise to be faced with one in a case a few hours later.
He’s also an advocate for related child safety in toys, so he took a special interest in the case.
fidget spinner x ray
After multiple, very stressful attempts to place an IV, Britton was taken to surgery to endoscopically locate and remove the object.
Fortunately we had a positive outcome, but it was pretty scary there for a while…
Not only because of the initial ingestion, but then the concern about the composition and structure of the object, and finally, the risk with general anesthesia.
fidget spinner britton
Facebook / Kelly Rose Joniec
From this I wish to offer some word of caution to parents.
Fidget spinners are the current craze so they are widely distributed.
Kids of all ages may be getting them, but not all spinners come with age-appropriate warnings.
The bushings pop out easily, so if you have young kids (under 8 yr old) keep in mind that these present a potential choking hazard
black fidget spinner

Do you know kids who have fidget spinners? If you do, you should tell them this story to keep them safe.
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