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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are around 6,000 pediatric ER visits for button battery ingestion every year in the United States. If you even suspect your child may have swallowed a button battery, take them to the emergency ...

The lights, the music, and the toys of the holidays were all magical!As you're packing things away, and the toys are testing their batteries with use, be on the lookout for button batteries.Tiny, flat ...

Katie Jacobsen knew button batteries were harmful to children. As she rushed to the ER, she gave her daughter honey, on a poison control website's advice. When 3-year old Maggie told her mom Katie ...

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In late October 2020, a spunky 17-month-old named Reese started wheezing. Her mother, Trista Hamsmith, took the congested, stuffy toddler to the pediatrician, who said it was likely croup. Soon ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Toys are a young child's best friend, but the batteries that go in them can be a parent's worst enemy. The National Capital Poison Control Center reports more than 3,500 people ...

Kasey Allen has been raising awareness for the dangers of button batteries after her son swallowed one Kasey Allen (2) Kasey Allen's son, Asa, accidentally swallowed a button battery in October 2023 ...