Two year old girl died after eating a button battery.

[Elderflower14]

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So very sad..
Many years ago my ds2 swallowed a hearing aid battery.. I rang our now deceased and much missed family doctor and he told us to go STRAIGHT to A&E.
I don't drive and all my family were away so a dear friend dropped everything to drive us twenty five miles to the hospital. Thankfully for us the battery passed straight through the danger areas (i'm guessing because it's smaller) and the only thing we had to worry about was ds2 moaning he was hungry and where was his dinner? He had previously swallowed a ball bearing whilst with family in Yorkshire. Another trip to the hospital. This time he was chattering to a prisoner handcuffed to a police lady with a tea towel wrapped round his hand. Our relative who drove us to hospital sat on the other side of the waiting room and pretended he didn't know us... Same result with the bb it passed through.
People need to realise how dangerous button batteries are. We were fortunate. Harper Lee and her family werent. 😔

That was quite strange OP. You used someone else’s tragedy ostensibly as a warning but had to shoehorn in an anecdote about your son’s hospital antics?

@SmidgenofaPigeon

That was quite strange OP. You used someone else’s tragedy ostensibly as a warning but had to shoehorn in an anecdote about your son’s hospital antics?

Yeah…

Buttons batteries are incredibly dangerous. I think people forget they are basically acid in a casing because the bigger ones are harder to swallow

People don’t know generally how dangerous these can be. Thank you OP, it’s good to share this kind of stuff.

I didn't mean to be flippant.. 😔
I was sharing my experiences. My apologies...

I didn’t read it as you being flippant at all, OP.

It’s good to raise awareness of how dangerous these batteries can be.
That poor little girl 😞

@RonniePickering

I didn’t read it as you being flippant at all, OP.

It’s good to raise awareness of how dangerous these batteries can be.
That poor little girl 😞

Thankyou...

They are so very dangerous and I think probably a lot of people don’t realise.

Magnets is another one I think people don’t realise the dangers of.
I feel so sorry for the family

This is so sad, I think button batteries should be phased out in all but essential items. We had them in so many toys, like a Disney singing Elsa doll, yes they are in a screw shut compartment but this toy and so many others could easily accommodate an aaa battery which is far less likely to be swallowed. Button batteries should only be used in items where a normal battery couldn't possibly fit.

God yes, magnets. I was reading a few weeks ago that some NHS doctors were calling for magnetic mouth piercings to be banned because people were swallowing them and several were collecting up in people's intestines and either causing blockages or trapping blood vessels and people needed surgery to remove them.

Bump!

Poor family, I watched the video this morning and had tears in my eyes. My DS is 2 and I can’t imagine the pain they must feel. I don’t buy noisy toys and I’m really glad, just not worth the risk.