Washed baby clothes with a battery by mistake… please help!

[Batteryspp]

Will this have damages their clothes or be dangerous to them? I must have collected a pile and not realised what I had picked up. Baby only 2 months so not crawling

I’m more concerned about your washing machine and whether the battery has been safely found and disposed of.

And why a battery was lying around in a laundry pile. Batteries can be fatal if ingested. If your clothes aren't damaged it'll be ok.

Found battery in the machine at the end of the cycle

Battery was inside a key fob, sorry should have clarified!

The clothes will be fine, the battery and washing machine maybe less so.

It's the inside of the battery that's toxic. So unless it corroded and there is a hole in it, nothing is going to happen.

Is the battery fob damaged?

If your baby is 2 months old, presumably in 0-3 months clothing, I'd just put him/her in some new clothes that are 3-6 months. Just cheap multipack babygros and vests will do the job. Those 0-3 month clothes will be too small very shortly anyway so I'd bin them if the battery itself leaked on the clothes.

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that’s what it was

I don't think it would have even occurred to me there would be an issue with this. I'd have been more grumpy that I had ruined my key fob! The clothes will be fine.

Me neither, I find all kinds of random things in my machine due to children not emptying their pockets

Every day I read something on here that it never occured to me to worry about, I don't know how my children have survived to date 😀

My son swallowed two double a batteries when he was 4....took them out of the television remote!!!! Mad dash to the hospital for x rays.....he was perfectly fine!!! Just had to monitor his bowel movements for a few days till they passed naturally

Every day I read something on here that it never occured to me to worry about, I don't know how my children have survived to date

I agree - between this thread and the one about changing the car seat after a very minor bump.

Entirely harmless.

@Batteryspp

unless the battery had been crushed, baby's clothes will be absolutely fine!

It's a big warning to you (both??) that you now have to be extremely careful with anything with a battery in it (soooo many things these days!) as they can be fatal if ingested.

babies go from not moving to rolling & ninjas in about 2 seconds. They don't need to be crawling to get into mischief!! Have a container for 'used ones' & find places you go that have disposal bins (usually supermarkets have them) & get into good habits now because they should not go in your household waste!

but your washing, that'll be fine for your baby!!

Sorry but this is ridiculous, obviously if the cover of the battery isn’t damaged then the clothes are fine and so is the washing machine.

The clothes will be fine.
The round, flat ( lithium?) batteries are potentially fatal if swallowed so as your little one will soon be crawling and exploring you need to make sure they can never get to one. Too easily swallowed and the results can be catastrophic.

I don't think swallowing batteries is ok but I think it's the lithium flat cells that are fatal if swallowed. I'm sure it's a one off OP, but please be careful

You'll need to burn all the clothes, fumigate the house and call bomb disposal for the battery - for extra measure!

You need to take much more care with button batteries

I had a soft toy with a battery in, which made a noise when you pressed its tummy. It went through the washer several times before the sound stopped working....

As long as it is intact it won't have done harm. Does it still work?

Your key fob is unlikely to work the clothes and machine are fine.

You missed logging it with 111! And 101! Log it with both, just to be sure!

Those fobs don't have batteries in. It's the reader that uses electricity, not the fob.

It looks like an RFID tag to me, they don't contain batteries.