Children who swallow Lego are safe from harm, claim doctors who themselves ate toy pieces and timed how long they took to pass through their bowels.
Six doctors were specially recruited to eat Lego figurines for a new study, which pointed out ingestion of such items “has been subject to less academic study”.
And after safely disposing of the toy parts, the doctors claimed parents have little to worry about if their child happens to swallow Lego.
They concluded: “A toy object quickly passes through adult subjects with no complications.
“This will reassure parents, and the authors advocate that no parent should be expected to search through their child's faeces to prove object retrieval.”
The study was conducted by simply recording the time the Lego was ingested and measuring how many hours it took to pass out of their system.
This was named the FART (“found and retrieved time”) score.
The average time of ingestion and removal was 1.71 days.
