Man Tried To Make Anti-Face-Touching Device To Avoid CO.VID-19, Got Magnets Stuck In His Nose, Doctors Laughed

Dhir Acharya - Mar 31, 2020

While people on the frontline are fighting tooth and nail against CO.VID-19, an astrophysicist did what he can and worked on an anti-face-touching device.

Researchers, scientists, and healthcare workers on the frontline are risking their lives to treat people infected with CO.VID-19. Follow the enthusiasm, an astrophysicist has made an effort to help fight the pandemic but while he hasn’t come up with a success, the man has already ended up in the hospital.

According to the Guardian, Daniel Reardon from Australia was working on an alarm system to alert people each time they put their hands to their face. Reardon explained that that creation was meant to prevent people from transmitting the virus from hands to faces.

He made a circuit necklace that would alert when detecting a magnetic field. When the necklace is paired with a magnetic bracelet, it alarms if the wearer puts their hand too close to their face. However, an attempt in building the device ended up in the inverse result as the necklace beeped continuously and stopped only when it’s close to the magnets.

Still curious, the astrophysicist clipped the magnets to his ears, which was when everything went south. When Reardon removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the magnets inside his nose got stuck together, sticking around his septum. He then tried to get the inside magnets out using other magnets, they stuck to the original ones. At the time, he had no more magnets.

Readon's emergency medical discharge summary

Reardon was taken to the hospital and the doctors there thought the accident was funny. “This is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom,” the doctors jokingly commented. The doctors were able to remove three magnets using the anaesthetic spray, with the third one falling down Readon’s throat and he had to cough it out.

However, the bored astrophysicist swallowed at least two of the magnets, which may cause severe morbidity as they can attract across bowel loops and erode through the walls of the intestines.

Despite the accident and being laughed at, Readon remains optimistic about his idea and even says he may give it another try. He added that he got suggestions from those who read the article about his incident too.