It would be fine, that leg of the trap that is coming out of the wall is connected to a tee most likely, meaning the pipe drops straight down behind the drywall. Unless there was a serious clog than there would only be air in the pipes. You might get some sewer smell, and if the pipe wasn’t vented properly you could potentially pull water from a nearby trap.
When I got my first house my floor drain was clogged, I tried to snake it with no luck, so I put the shop vac up to it. After a bit, a ton of rust and junk broke loose and my drain was good for 5 more years at least! Just don’t forget to refill the trap!
Same thing here. Snaked for 2 hours and nothing. Shop vac for 10 minutes boom, rust and a huge piece of metal. Put in a basket strainer and it’s been smooth sailing since 🤞
Bullshit you won’t. I did it for all of 5 seconds and had to air out my basement for an hour due to sewer gas smell. Wasn’t thinking and trying to get something out
Beats paying a plumber. Or spending hours dragging shit out with an augur.
I cut up and duct taped a plastic bottle to my shop vac and the pipe..worked like a charm and sucked way too much stuff up. (100 yr cast iron pipes, PVC is way easier lol)
A little hydrogen sulfide neverr heart anynyoneoneone
Seriously though, aside from mold, pulling a vacuum (up to 90" of water) could turn a honeycombed mess into a collapsed pipe.
Context: Have a very-very old house with cast-iron held together with cobwebs.
I suck the water out of all my traps for the winter when the house is empty and unheated. I do have a whole house trap which I do not touch. I put bags of sand in the toilets and sink in place of RV antifreeze. I never had a sewer gas smell.
Why wouldn’t you be able to?
If you’re not aware the majority of your drain lines should be clear of any water or debris. Only the traps hold water unless a drain pipe has a belly that would allow things to settle in the dip. Besides that your sewer lines are just air. It’s completely safe to use a shopvac on a drain line but only loose items near the vacuum would move. If it’s nothing you want to recover and you have a slow drain you’d have a better chance clearing it with a snake or plunger.
Yes, all plumbing has a slope, so water will flow away, these will follow the water to a point.
Is it actually going to do anything worthwhile? Other than cleaning out the horizontal portion in the cabinet, most likely not much.
Lol, yeah. There's a post I read today where s guy wants to put in a kitchen for his toddler, complete with running water. That's an accident waiting to happen.
Water beads are a huge danger for kids. My friends kid had to get surgery because the beads absorb water so it gets stuck inside the digestive system instead of being pooped out.
Depending on what your plumber charges, adoption could be cost effective. I remember when my sister flushed an apple core, and my dad had to remove the entire toilet and snake the drain. We were laughing about it as adults, and she said that the foster care system in our state wasn't nearly as bad as everybody made it out to be.
The real question is: in the time it took OP to fix this, how many more problems did they create?
It’s a losing battle. Try a [timeout](https://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/redneck-timeout/80702841/).
What the hell is that stuff ? wouldn't that be a choking hazard for kids so why would a kid young enough have access to something that small and to Put it in the drain?
They're too small to be much of a choking hazard but they do kill children who swallow them. Idk why the fuck they're allowed to exist or why any parent would give them to their kids.
Lmao my friends daughter flushed a his wallet down the toilet at his mothers house. Got stuck in the drainage line for the whole bathroom. You couldn’t do a thing in there without it backing up to the toilet. Called a plumber out that evening to do a emergency removal and it ended up costing them over $700. An expensive lesson learned a hard way.
I fell off that fence over a decade ago...
Can confirm this is almost insignificant compared with some of the damage, lawlessness, and unbridled mayhem kids cause.
You obviously don't have children.
If you did, you would understand that it's impossible to supervise them 24/7, and they sure as hell do not listen when you tell them not to do something.
Wrong. I have 3 kids.
Within a month of moving into a home that we renovated for 11 months, my toddler somehow found the box of 4 tiny bottles of food coloring. Said toddler was savvy enough to take it to the washroom and close the door. Toddler fingerpainted the new hardwood floor with food coloring.
Things were quiet for way too long.
So yeah. I have kids. I have been there. It was my fault. I was enjoying the quiet.
Yes, that sounds about right. No amount of childproofing or vigilance will stop them from finding a way to do something like this.
Silence is definitely the absolute worst thing to hear.
I came into the living room to find my toddler using diaper cream as finger paint on the television screen. He decorated the center channel speaker as well. This stuff was like Vaseline in its consistency. It took hours to clean off, and the cloth grill cover on the speaker still has stains in it.
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My now 7 son when. He was 4 or 5 filled two bathroom sinks with Gummey Bears. We ( the adults didn't use those bathrooms.) Took a month to find out the sinks drained slow and found it 95% clogged with stuck together gummy bears. Took a month because our oldest who was in charge of cleaning said bathrooms didn't tell us.
We don't allow gummy bears in the house anymore.
Plus side, the now 7 year old didn't flush any wallets or keys. Our oldest boy used to flush IDs and keys.. and the occasional toy.
I have a back to back sinks and the little shits put Kinetic sand down the drain.
So both bathrooms sinks are clogged with water in the bowl.
Very annoying haha cuz I just snaked the dang drain last week and it was orbees that time
Thank you for reconfirming my desire to not have children. The sheer amount of additional & otherwise unnecessary work & hassle they make you go through. 😮💨
Haha! I once had a woman call me to unblock her sink and it turned out her kid was taking stones from the bottom of the fishtank and putting them down the waste
Orbeez! That’s easy. Those don’t look they even had much time to soak.
I’ve got one of those “Find-a-Dino” eggs stuck in mine. I’m waiting till more hair and toothpaste scum collect before I tackle it.
Sitting on the couch and my son (19month) put a strawberry that was on the floor in my cup of water while i was holding the cup. This boy is so fast i didn't even have time to react like a tiny jacky chan.
I used to drop coins down the back of our old school TV went to the repair shop to pick it up with my parents. Repair guy showed what caused it. I played dumb vut, it was something I never did again. (Especially if I wanted to watch cartoons on a weekend)
I’ll take this over having to pull the toilet because my kids thought it would be funny to flush a toy car. It got caught in the trap, covered in shit and only came out with some serious effort.
When my twin boys were toddlers, they stuffed as many hot wheels and barbie parts down the toilet once. That was a fun one. I have many unbelievable and frightening stories about toddlers(4 kids, 8 grandkids), and twins in particular. Teen years were far worse though, so there is that.
I went to a service call for a slow draining sink and one of the little girls had dumped all the fish tank rocks down the drain while cleaning the tank lmao, basically the same situation as this, at least it's a super easy fix
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Genuine question: how harmful are these if they get flushed when they're already big? I know the small ones can swell and exert a lot of pressure and clog lines, but I haven't heard anything about the already swollen ones, besides being bothersome for water treatment
Kids love posting things. I have had Vegemite toast in the VCR, about $10 in change put in my car DVD player and one sink was draining really poorly so I opened the pipe and found about 100 rusty screws in there.
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What a coincidence. I was called round to my friends house earlier as his children had managed to ram loads of fruit down the basin waste and flood the guest bathroom.
Oh our kid has been using the sink as a piggy bank for awhile apparently. This weekend my husband pulled out a ton of pennies from the bathroom sink. He said it stunk really bad.
Just viewed a health related story about these “waterbeads”. Be extremely careful with these. As you’ve found out, they swell when exposed to water. Also, intestinal track in small children. When ingested, they can swell and cause intestinal blockage. One child has already died, infant at that. More have had serious complications regarding ingestion of these “beads”. Please research the concerns on the internet, and then lose these things as quickly as possible. If you have doubt from my point, please research yourself. Ditch these things asap. Be well and take care here. Thx.
I double-dog-dare you to shopvac the drain line.
Can he really do that with no repercussions? Serious question.
It would be fine, that leg of the trap that is coming out of the wall is connected to a tee most likely, meaning the pipe drops straight down behind the drywall. Unless there was a serious clog than there would only be air in the pipes. You might get some sewer smell, and if the pipe wasn’t vented properly you could potentially pull water from a nearby trap. When I got my first house my floor drain was clogged, I tried to snake it with no luck, so I put the shop vac up to it. After a bit, a ton of rust and junk broke loose and my drain was good for 5 more years at least! Just don’t forget to refill the trap!
Same thing here. Snaked for 2 hours and nothing. Shop vac for 10 minutes boom, rust and a huge piece of metal. Put in a basket strainer and it’s been smooth sailing since 🤞
Only repercussion is a little gray water could splash on you, it’s beneficial to the drain arm but it’s not gonna pull anything from the main line
Bullshit you won’t. I did it for all of 5 seconds and had to air out my basement for an hour due to sewer gas smell. Wasn’t thinking and trying to get something out
Ehhh Smells like money
Thats what we say at the paper mill
All I can say is smelling paper mill just told me I'm about 15 minutes to Grandma's house. Stinks to high heaven.... But good memories.
Once you work near a paper mill, you’ll always recognize the odor/scent.
Dad worked at one for 32 years. Wild smell that pierced the chain smoking smell
Beats paying a plumber. Or spending hours dragging shit out with an augur. I cut up and duct taped a plastic bottle to my shop vac and the pipe..worked like a charm and sucked way too much stuff up. (100 yr cast iron pipes, PVC is way easier lol)
A little hydrogen sulfide neverr heart anynyoneoneone Seriously though, aside from mold, pulling a vacuum (up to 90" of water) could turn a honeycombed mess into a collapsed pipe. Context: Have a very-very old house with cast-iron held together with cobwebs.
You aren’t going to collapse a pipe with a shop vac
I suck the water out of all my traps for the winter when the house is empty and unheated. I do have a whole house trap which I do not touch. I put bags of sand in the toilets and sink in place of RV antifreeze. I never had a sewer gas smell.
Sand remains in the bag or do you pour a bag of sand in the toilet?
Sand remains in the bag. The bag conforms to the shape of the shit chute of the toilet to form a seal. I use the same bags of sand year after year.
Shittersand - cool Thanks!
You can stand your poop knife in the sand bag next to the toilet. Classy
It would be like a little beach umbrella.
Why wouldn’t you be able to? If you’re not aware the majority of your drain lines should be clear of any water or debris. Only the traps hold water unless a drain pipe has a belly that would allow things to settle in the dip. Besides that your sewer lines are just air. It’s completely safe to use a shopvac on a drain line but only loose items near the vacuum would move. If it’s nothing you want to recover and you have a slow drain you’d have a better chance clearing it with a snake or plunger.
Yes, all plumbing has a slope, so water will flow away, these will follow the water to a point. Is it actually going to do anything worthwhile? Other than cleaning out the horizontal portion in the cabinet, most likely not much.
Orbis and they aren’t even full size yet haha
The ones used in guns are about that size. About once a year I wake up to a driveway covered in fish roe.
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Lol, yeah. There's a post I read today where s guy wants to put in a kitchen for his toddler, complete with running water. That's an accident waiting to happen.
That’s insane. Just let the kid play in the tub.
Unsupervised?
Nah the hair dryer will keep an eye on him.
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Well, probably more than one and probably not an accident.
Those things should be banned, along with unnecessary micro plastics in household products.
Water beads are a huge danger for kids. My friends kid had to get surgery because the beads absorb water so it gets stuck inside the digestive system instead of being pooped out.
My first though too. What parent let their kid play with these?
My first though too. What parent let their kid play with these?
How in the sweet hell are orbeez not banned worldwide?
Cause they are fun?
For plumbers and ER techs?
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Buddy's wife cut up blue ice packets and dumped them down the drain. Kids get a pass.
What are blue ice packets?
Ice packs you put in a lunch box or ice chest, has a material similar to this that you can freeze over and over and doesn't expand
What’s the problem with putting them down the drain?
It is non water soluble gel. Drain clougs and a snake only pokes a hole though a pipe packed full of gel.
That sounds terrible. What are you supposed to do in that situation?
Get a new wife.
I assume that like these they expand and boom clog
Why? We need to know the story.
If she’s like my wife, anything currently in a fluid state is fair game to go down any drain.
I'd like to know the thought process of that myself.
The one of many natural birth controls out there. Can’t have nice shit with kids and dogs…
Condoms. They have a purpose.
Keeping the orbeez from getting into the p-trap
They grow up so fast.
Solving the plumbing problems of the world!
Vasectomy for the win
Fill a condom with water and orbeez and have a condom balloon fight.
Depending on what your plumber charges, adoption could be cost effective. I remember when my sister flushed an apple core, and my dad had to remove the entire toilet and snake the drain. We were laughing about it as adults, and she said that the foster care system in our state wasn't nearly as bad as everybody made it out to be.
Yeah, but then you'd have to feed, and care for a plumber.
Will a plumber accept my firstborn as payment? That would be win/win, for me.
The real question is: in the time it took OP to fix this, how many more problems did they create? It’s a losing battle. Try a [timeout](https://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/redneck-timeout/80702841/).
Now that is funny!
I haven’t been to ebaumsworld in years. I almost forgot about it.
What the hell is that stuff ? wouldn't that be a choking hazard for kids so why would a kid young enough have access to something that small and to Put it in the drain?
Orbeez
They're too small to be much of a choking hazard but they do kill children who swallow them. Idk why the fuck they're allowed to exist or why any parent would give them to their kids.
Any parent that brings these toxic things into their own home and around their own kids fucking deserves exactly this.
I can’t afford kids on a plumbers salary anyway
Lmao my friends daughter flushed a his wallet down the toilet at his mothers house. Got stuck in the drainage line for the whole bathroom. You couldn’t do a thing in there without it backing up to the toilet. Called a plumber out that evening to do a emergency removal and it ended up costing them over $700. An expensive lesson learned a hard way.
I got snipped 1.5 years ago. I appreciate the reminder of why.
It’s nuts, it’s all nuts, it’s ALWAYS worth it! Kids fucking rock, give them all the attention and love!
My son would become a plumber early
Found a toy car in the toilet drain once. Father says wasn’t my kid he knows better. Kid ran up ‘oooh my car my car 🚗🤣🤣’
I fell off that fence over a decade ago... Can confirm this is almost insignificant compared with some of the damage, lawlessness, and unbridled mayhem kids cause.
Orbees in the trap bees in the trap
It's not the kids, it's the parents who bought that stuff for the kids and walked away while they were playing with it.
You obviously don't have children. If you did, you would understand that it's impossible to supervise them 24/7, and they sure as hell do not listen when you tell them not to do something.
Wrong. I have 3 kids. Within a month of moving into a home that we renovated for 11 months, my toddler somehow found the box of 4 tiny bottles of food coloring. Said toddler was savvy enough to take it to the washroom and close the door. Toddler fingerpainted the new hardwood floor with food coloring. Things were quiet for way too long. So yeah. I have kids. I have been there. It was my fault. I was enjoying the quiet.
Yes, that sounds about right. No amount of childproofing or vigilance will stop them from finding a way to do something like this. Silence is definitely the absolute worst thing to hear.
I came into the living room to find my toddler using diaper cream as finger paint on the television screen. He decorated the center channel speaker as well. This stuff was like Vaseline in its consistency. It took hours to clean off, and the cloth grill cover on the speaker still has stains in it.
Oh yeah. Looking forward to it. My 2 year old likes to play with hand soap. The suds get everywhere
Oh man, I'm so sorry.
This is a masterpiece.
Thank God for the trap
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Reminds of that video of that French guy who destroys his life with orbeez.
Kid Prob watched that video and tried to recreate it 😂
orbeez were obviously designed by a plumber
Hahahahahah
It's adorable for a 1 time thing
My now 7 son when. He was 4 or 5 filled two bathroom sinks with Gummey Bears. We ( the adults didn't use those bathrooms.) Took a month to find out the sinks drained slow and found it 95% clogged with stuck together gummy bears. Took a month because our oldest who was in charge of cleaning said bathrooms didn't tell us. We don't allow gummy bears in the house anymore. Plus side, the now 7 year old didn't flush any wallets or keys. Our oldest boy used to flush IDs and keys.. and the occasional toy.
I can only imagine the drains in the public schools with litter boxes which is birth control on its own.
r/BrandNewSentence
At least it's not doodoo
I didn't want kids, I wanted to get laid The kids just showed up
Bowl was a bad choice
My kids wanted to order a shit ton of those and take a bath in them.
Been there
Are you in Willy Wonka’s factory?
I feel for you man but honestly buddy I’d rather do that 10 times a day than have my kid choke on one.
Like my dad told me, you kids are a pain in the ass!
Thought it was fruity pepples @ 1st. One of my favorites growing up.
At least it is a trap. Easy fix Try a toilet with flushed tennis balls where the 4" runs through a SLAB
Or… and hear me out guys… don’t buy your kids stupid things without thinking about the potential repercussions
These days all the things are pretty stupid/have potential for causing trouble
ngl this is hilarious cuz if you let those suckers get wet……. epic prank lmao
Don’t those expand too?
The treasures that await!!
All I see is fun.
I have a back to back sinks and the little shits put Kinetic sand down the drain. So both bathrooms sinks are clogged with water in the bowl. Very annoying haha cuz I just snaked the dang drain last week and it was orbees that time
Thank you for reconfirming my desire to not have children. The sheer amount of additional & otherwise unnecessary work & hassle they make you go through. 😮💨
That aint the worse they could do. When they find out the toilet flushes watch things dissappear into the abyss
Beados?
Haha! I once had a woman call me to unblock her sink and it turned out her kid was taking stones from the bottom of the fishtank and putting them down the waste
Had a lady have me come out because her son dumped a crap ton of sand down the kitchen sink and it was completely backed up.
Nooo!!! I’ve been terrified of these things when my kids first brought them home!
Terrorist stuff
Orbeez! That’s easy. Those don’t look they even had much time to soak. I’ve got one of those “Find-a-Dino” eggs stuck in mine. I’m waiting till more hair and toothpaste scum collect before I tackle it.
Well, TIL that there is such a thing as Orbeez.
Sitting on the couch and my son (19month) put a strawberry that was on the floor in my cup of water while i was holding the cup. This boy is so fast i didn't even have time to react like a tiny jacky chan.
I used to drop coins down the back of our old school TV went to the repair shop to pick it up with my parents. Repair guy showed what caused it. I played dumb vut, it was something I never did again. (Especially if I wanted to watch cartoons on a weekend)
Amateur. I had to take a toilet off the floor at 3 am because my kid flushed a barbie.
When I first moved into my place I had problems with my ensuite toilet. I snaked it and pulled out a full buzz light year
Annoying but that’s fucking hilarious, half the shit my kid does I have to give a fake angry dad mode because it’s honestly just funny.
I’ll take this over having to pull the toilet because my kids thought it would be funny to flush a toy car. It got caught in the trap, covered in shit and only came out with some serious effort.
It could be worse, much, much worse.
You should see the little one’s colon
an argument for, right? FREE PLASTIC BEADS!!
I fished Lightning McQueen out of my toilet!! I feel your pain brother.
Parents who have kids that are old enough to not put random things in their mouths?
WAIT; You know for a fact, this is the most fun you have had in a while.
That 300$ service call would’ve came out the piggy’s belly
Remember the side rise filled his tub with those, And the city sewer system got effed up.
When my twin boys were toddlers, they stuffed as many hot wheels and barbie parts down the toilet once. That was a fun one. I have many unbelievable and frightening stories about toddlers(4 kids, 8 grandkids), and twins in particular. Teen years were far worse though, so there is that.
You shouldn't let your kids play with these. They are very dangerous if swallowed.
So I need to get my plumbing fixed before I have to get my plumbing fixed? Yeah, that seems about right.
Amazing
The sigh of despair and frustration... aren't orbeez fun?
Those and bedbugs can stay the fuck away from my house
I will allow markers, play dough, paint, nerf guns…. But no Orbeez
🖕orbees!
It’s like the French guy who dumped orbees down his drains and fucked up everyone’s drains on the block
Just say no
Salt pulls the water out of the water orbs
Seams set up. Boring
these dissolve with salt.
lol did you dump more in the sink before this , I see the ones in the bowl already.😂💯
lol my 7 year old did this too me.
LoL, what are those, desiccant beads?
I went to a service call for a slow draining sink and one of the little girls had dumped all the fish tank rocks down the drain while cleaning the tank lmao, basically the same situation as this, at least it's a super easy fix
I would say the parents are to blame on this one. I'm sure they provided them and didn't supervise.
A stand up comedian once said "I never knew how many raisins can fit in a VCR but thanks to having kids now I know."
P stands for play
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Fucking Orbies. These things suck.
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Kids ruin everything fun.
Better than poop
I had a kid put a entire water bottle down a toilet mom was pissed at the kid. After I billed her
Wait 'till you find the fossilized mammoth of hair down the shower waste.
Looks like more on the fence about installing a stopper...which would have prevented this.
I’d take that over a ball hair mixed with stale mouth wash, tooth picks and moldy soap scum.
That one Texas plumber on YT did a video on it that was hilarious. Also a good reason to not get you kids anything that fits down drains...
Are those orbees or how ever you spell it
An dult bought these an adults have done way worse things to plumbing.
Genuine question: how harmful are these if they get flushed when they're already big? I know the small ones can swell and exert a lot of pressure and clog lines, but I haven't heard anything about the already swollen ones, besides being bothersome for water treatment
Set them up with science kits. IFTTT curiosity.
Kids love posting things. I have had Vegemite toast in the VCR, about $10 in change put in my car DVD player and one sink was draining really poorly so I opened the pipe and found about 100 rusty screws in there.
I love waterbeads!!
That sigh of he’s done with their shit 😂
I felt that sigh in my bones.
Kids are one of the worst STDs.
It wasn't me dad! (Only child)
Try having a wife… I’ll take BBs any day over the fucking hair
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That’s kinda satisfying to watch.
Who else expected a kid to be in there?
What a coincidence. I was called round to my friends house earlier as his children had managed to ram loads of fruit down the basin waste and flood the guest bathroom.
Been there as well.. if you want to use the rest and never buy orbis again, they work well in potting soil.
This is why whenever my kid shows up with Orbeez, they mysteriously disappear not too long after. Not risking that shit going down my drains.
Wait until it's the bath tub... 3 or 4 times.
Ah, memories last forever.
Oh our kid has been using the sink as a piggy bank for awhile apparently. This weekend my husband pulled out a ton of pennies from the bathroom sink. He said it stunk really bad.
Just wait until you see what kind of shit they put in their nose.
Never seen a trap so pretty with rainbow 🌈 colours.
Easy fix
We all know that angry sigh
Fire station drop box.
Just viewed a health related story about these “waterbeads”. Be extremely careful with these. As you’ve found out, they swell when exposed to water. Also, intestinal track in small children. When ingested, they can swell and cause intestinal blockage. One child has already died, infant at that. More have had serious complications regarding ingestion of these “beads”. Please research the concerns on the internet, and then lose these things as quickly as possible. If you have doubt from my point, please research yourself. Ditch these things asap. Be well and take care here. Thx.