Each year, about 3,500 people swallow what are known as button batteries. Many of them are small children under the age of 5. They're shiny and tiny so kids just put it in their mouths and swallow ...

CPSC warns of hazardous light-up skirts sold on Amazon.com and Walmart.com, containing unsafe button batteries posing serious risks to children.

Toddler 'Rushed to the ER’ After Swallowing Button Battery. Nearly 2 Years Later, Mom Says the Recovery Has Been ‘Torture’ (Exclusive) Kasey Allen has been raising awareness for the dangers ...

NEED TO KNOW Kasey Allen's son, Asa, accidentally swallowed a button battery in October 2023 Allen noticed something was wrong with Asa and rushed him to the hospital. It would be one of many ...

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In short, he says, it is impossible to differentiate button battery ingestion from other types of foreign body ingestion unless one is already aware of it.

A two-year-old child, after ingesting a small button battery, ended up in the hospital, first at Moscati in Aversa and then at Santobono in Naples, where during the night between Friday and ...

Button batteries are more of a risk than most realize, a message the BC Injury Research Prevention Unit is issuing ahead of National Poison Prevention Week. The button battery, also known as a disc or ...

From 2021 to 2023, the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre managed 159 cases of button battery exposures, with 55% of them involving babies and children ages five and under.

Look around your house. Chances are you've got toys and other household items powered by those tiny button-size batteries. What you may not know is that they’re potentially deadly if swallowed.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates there were more than 54,000 ER visits and at least 25 deaths attributed to button batteries from 2011 to 2021.

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