Parents should “treat button batteries the same way they treat cleaning chemicals or the knives in the kitchen,” said a pediatric emergency doctor.
The yearly rate of children’s battery-related emergency room visits more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous two, a new study finds.
“A lot of devices have battery compartments that would not be considered child-resistant,” Chandler told NBC’s “TODAY” show. “That’s why it’s very important for parents and caregivers to know how to keep loose batteries and battery-powered devices up and out of the reach of children.”than other small objects, said Dr. Mary Beth Howard, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
“The problem is those dead batteries contain enough residual charge that, if they are swallowed, they can cause tissue damage,” Chandler said. “One method of safer disposal of button batteries is to wrap the battery ... horizontally and vertically in two layers of tape immediately after removal from a device for disposal. This has been shown to help reduce injury in the event of an ingestion.”Dr.
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