Water beads may look harmless and fun, but the authors of a new report​ — including a mom whose daughter was seriously injured by them — are calling for a ban​ on their sale.

Water-absorbing beads have become increasingly hazardous to children over the past 10 years, as children who swallow the ...

They're small, colorful and marketed as safe sensory toys but water beads have sent thousands of kids to the emergency room—and now, experts and parents want their sale to be banned. Water beads ...

Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. It turned out she had ingested the small, water-absorbing beads her older sister was playing with. The beads can expand to 100 times their size when ...