Button Battery Ingestion

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Lulwah A. -

What if they ingest the long electric battery 🔋? Any specific risk?
Some time kids chewing the material inside it How to deal with that ?

Matia M. -

The ingestion of other cylindrical batteries is much more rare and during my literature review I can only really find recent case reports. Here is one at describes when conservative vs. surgical management is warranted.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931289/. If there is concern about chewing on batteries I would immediately call poison control. -Britt Guest

Lulwah A. -

Thank you ..
Appreciate your efforts

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