“It burned a hole in her esophagus,” the child's mother said ...

Parents of a 4-year-old girl who is fighting for her life in a Southern California children’s hospital after swallowing a ...

Parents of a 4-year-old girl who is fighting for her life in a Southern California children’s hospital after swallowing a button battery are warning others with small children to be on the lookout for ...

Children can suffer serious or deadly injuries after swallowing button batteries, which power a wide range of household items. Physicians say serious injury can happen within two hours, sometimes ...

The new battery by Energizer, with “color alert technology,” comes nearly two years after a report warned that more children were swallowing batteries. By Aimee Ortiz Almost two years after a report ...

CHARLOTTE — 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 ...

PUTTING YOUR FAMILY AT RISK. BUTTON AND COIN CELL BATTERIES ARE TINY BUT POWERFUL. YOU CAN FIND THEM IN EVERYTHING FROM TEA LIGHTS TO TOYS AND IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY’RE UNIQUELY ...

Button battery ingestion or inhalation may be difficult to diagnose in the absence of an electrical injury. Unexplained chronic stridor merits prompt investigation and early imaging. Case study of a ...

A button battery inside a children's book caused a car seat to burst into flames, according to a North Carolina fire department. The George Hildebran Fire & Rescue Department, located in Burke County, ...