Astrophysicist is taken to hospital with four MAGNETS stuck up his nose after trying to invent a coronavirus device that stops people touching their faces
- Dr Daniel Reardon rushed to hospital after bizarre mishap while self-isolating
- Astrophysicist was experimenting with magnets when four got stuck in nostrils
- Made problem worse by trying to pull magnets out with pliers, which connected
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A Melbourne astrophysicist’s attempts during self-isolation to invent a device to slow the spread of coronavirus landed him in hospital.
Dr Daniel Reardon got four magnets stuck up his nostrils while experimenting with them at home last week as he tried to come up with a way to stop people touching their faces.
The Swinburne University of Technology fellow researcher had been trying to create a magnetic necklace that activated an alarm if users brought it too close to their face.
Dr Daniel Reardon has vowed to not experiment with magnets again after getting four stuck up his nose during a mishap while in self-isolation at home
‘It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril,’ Dr Reardon told Guardian Australia.
The magnets connected to each other while Dr Reardon was trying to remove them and got stuck up his nose when he lost his grip.
In an attempt to remove them, Dr Reardon used pliers, which only made matters worse.
‘My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me. The doctors thought it was quite funny, making comments like ”this is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom”,’ he said.
Doctors described Dr Daniel Reardon’s bizarre injury the result of self-isolation and boredom
Doctors managed to pull three magnets from his nostrils, while the other fell down his throat.
‘That could have been a bit of a problem if I swallowed or breathed it in, but I was thankfully able to lean forward and cough it out … Needless to say I am not going to play with the magnets any more,’ Dr Reardon said.
He says his days of experimenting with magnets are now over.