Safe Toys

Hi All,

Does anyone has kids who played with any of the leap frog computers or learning games and is safe to use with their pacemakers.

I want to buy my son his birthday present but I am scared that it might tamper his device.What are your thoughts and recommendation that will be safe to use?

3 Comments

Computers OK

by Theknotguy - 2014-01-08 01:01:50

99.999% of the electronic equipment out there is safe to use around a PM. I'm working on a laptop now and have held it up to my chest with no problems, no reactions.

If you look around this site you'll find people with PM's who are arc welding, sky diving, scuba diving, swimming, running in marathons, and on and on. All of these things have warnings not to be around PM's not to use, not to do, etc. One guy was on the forum yesterday who had been working with sintering furnaces - a pretty high electromagnetic field with no problems. And a Leap Frog computer is no where near any of the EMF force of a sintering furnace.

The new PM's are pretty well shielded. So there's very little that will affect them. And, even if it does, the PM just goes into test mode. It doesn't stop working so your not going to see your son keel over when the PM goes into the test mode. He'll probably notice it, but he won't die.

For your son, after the first 90 days, probably the only thing he can't do is contact sports. Everything else is pretty wide open for him.

Right now life expectancy for your son is about 100 years. He's got a lot of living to do. Let the kid go out an enjoy it. Actually as he starts to feel better he'll be back to scaring you to death. So it's more dangerous for you than him.

It's a bright future. Go live it!

Theknotguy

it's fine

by Tracey_E - 2014-01-08 04:01:21

I'd avoid magnetic games, that's about it. Any electronics are fine. My kids loved their LeapFrogs.

testing

by slarnerd - 2014-02-13 03:02:29

We have not found a single electronic entertainment device that causes any interference or is even recognized by the pacer. My kids use Wii, xbox Kinect, PS3, DS, Itouch, kindle, leapster ... you name it. They both have epicardial pacers and hold the devices right over the pacer. Whenever I wonder about a device or a toy, I write it down ... when we go for the clinic pacer appointment, I take a bag of these things and we test them. The only item of many that has ever caused an issue was a stack of strong science magnets -- not just one, but 4 together --- and even then - the pacemaker recognized it but wasn't affected.

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