By Ashlea Knickel For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 09:23 EDT, 16 March 2022 | Updated: 09:23 EDT, 16 March 2022

A toddler's playtime ended in the emergency room after she swallowed one of the toys.

Chloe Ngyuen, four, was playing with her older sister's magnetic balls at her family's home in Cabramatta West, Sydney, when her parents heard her crying. 

'I looked at her hand and she was holding a bunch of these magnet balls and I said, Chloe, did you swallow that?' her dad, Bill Nguyen told 9News.

Chloe Ngyuen, four, was playing with her older sister's magnetic balls at her family's home in Cabramatta West, Sydney, when her parents heard her crying

Once Chloe had calmed down she told her dad she had swallowed one rainbow ball.

Her parents were alarmed because the balls are individual solid colours. 

Chloe was taken to the Children's Hospital at Westmead where an x-ray confirmed the little girl had swallowed a clump of eight magnets - or one 'rainbow' ball. 

'We were like, oh my god, eight of them, how did she swallow eight of them?,' Chloe's mum Amy Ngyuen said.

Chloe was taken to the Children's Hospital at Westmead where an x-ray confirmed the little girl had swallowed a clump of eight magnets - or one 'rainbow' ball

Luckily the magnetic balls were still in Chloe's stomach and could be removed using a camera inserted down her throat

Luckily the magnetic balls were still in Chloe's stomach and could be removed using a camera inserted down her throat.

While the procedure wouldn't have been much fun for the four-year-old, it was a much better outcome than what could have happened if she had been treated later.

Dr Michael Storman head of gastroenterology at the Children's Hospital at Westmead said if the magnetic balls had moved further through Chloe's system they could have caused a lot more damage.

'If they come apart or a loop of bowel gets caught up between them, you could end up with a bowel perforation and that can be a life-threatening emergency,' he said.

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