Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton and I'm Trey sicker and it's time for a brainstorm. So from the journal of pediatric and child health, I have an article for you called everything is awesome. Don't forget the Lego by doctors. Andrew, tag demeanor, Roland grace Leo, Katie Knight, Henry Goldstein and Tessa Davis. Hey team. And this came out in November of 2018 so we know children swallow lots of stuff, right? Yeah. Like if your kid swallowed a penny, that takes about three to five and a half days to pass. Well these, these six doctors were saying to each other, Hey, you know, we've got this lack of knowledge about more frequently swallowed items like lighter items, specifically Lego heads. Oh yeah, these six decided they were going to do it and in order to make sure they had accurate data, they had to do three days of pre ingestion, recording of their bathroom habits.
Speaker 0 01:04 And those were given a shat score that stands for stool hardness and transit. Okay. So they were just keeping track of like normal bowel action. I feel like we'd be friends with these people. I know I do too. And then they all got together at the same time. They swallowed their Lego heads. Oh man. And post swallowing. Their outcome was rated by the fart score that is found and retrieved the item. What were the, what's the search method? Are we talking Civ here? Like however they wanted to do it, but you had to go through the whole thing and make sure you, you checked average fart score was 1.71 days. Oh that's merciful because if you had long range you could have like an eight day stretch of checking fecal matter with the prep. Interesting. You should say that. One of the scientists, patient B, a 41 year old male, he searched 13 stools over a two week period and he never found the Lego head.
Speaker 0 02:12 There were no complications as far as they knew. And parents should be counseled not to search for the object and stools as it is difficult to find. And I imagine that a sentence was written by the 41 year old male who could not find the Lego head. Agreed. What I'm really hoping, all I've been able to think about since I read this article was I hope someday when that fellow has a colonoscopy. Oh my gosh, that'd be great. It's just kind of stuck to a sidewall in there scoping along and there's a smiling little LIGO head just waiting for him.
Speaker 0 02:48 That would definitely be among the crazier things the doc has seen. I imagine there'd be a scream, possibly some fainting cause I was wondering about that. Could it just settle into a lighting somewhere because those do get inflamed and then they accept whatever the thing is. Yeah, it's probably not actually there and he just had any just missed it. Yeah, but I still, I've just choose to believe. Yeah, your body hangs onto stuff sometimes. Yup, absolutely. So decides it's benign. It just lets it hang there. Now you know, don't swallow those Lego heads, but if you do it's going to be okay. That might be my new favorite brainstorm. I feel like that's going to be hard to beat. Well, if you want to hear more, we're on Facebook and Instagram is brain junk podcast and you can find us on Twitter as at my brain junk. Teresa and I will catch you next time when we share more of everything you never knew you wanted to know, and I guarantee you will not be bored. You will be more fecally informed perhaps, but not bored.
