Toy water beads are reportedly therapeutic for children with sensory processing or autism spectrum disorders. But it's also harmful after what it did to a 10-month-old baby girl from Berwick, Maine, United States in October.

Folichia Mitchell bought Chuckle & Roar-brand water beads from Target for her 9-year-old son who has ASD, Fox News reported.

Her baby, Kennedy, then got sick and the parents soon realized she accidentally swallowed a water bead they suspected was inadvertently dropped by their son.

The toy beads swell too many times their original size when they get wet, blocking the baby's intestines, Mitchell said in her TikTok post that also warned parents about the hazards of toy water beads, according to Fox News.

Kennedy needed five surgeries to help fix her digestive system and battled various infections while in the hospital, Mitchell told Fox News.

It's not always swallowing foreign objects that put kids in danger. The case of a two-year-old Ugandan boy named Iga Paul may be one for the record books.

Paul was playing at his home in Rwenjubu cell, Lake Katwe last 4 December when the bizarre emergency occurred, CNN reported.

Fortunately, a stranger named Chrispas Bagonza was at the right place and right time, and he saved Paul from severe injury.

It was not the young boy who swallowed anything bad. Instead, he was the one who was being swallowed by a hippopotamus.

With half of the boy's body already inside the attacking animal's mouth, the quick-thinking Bagonza threw a stone at the hippo scaring, and prompting it to release the boy, CNN reported.

The boy was treated for his non-life-threatening injury and fully recovered, according to police.