It might seem like a good idea to hang a safety pin around one's jewellery, but one mother found just how dangerous it could be for a child. Last week her three-year-old daughter accidentally swallowed the safety pin that she had hung around her mangalsutra. Doctors at KEM Hospital had to retrieve the pin, which was open and had got lodged in her throat, through endoscopy.

Her parents were worried when their daughter began to cry constantly. "She refused to even drink water. We rushed to a hospital where an X-Ray revealed what had happened. We were referred to KEM Hospital immediately," said her father.