In the world as seen through the eyes of a child, one of those tiny hearing-aid batteries might look like an "Iron Man" pill. Or swallowing a lithium cell or two might make you run like the Energizer Bunny.

So, a lot of batteries -- particularly the "button batteries" used to power calculators, hearing aids and a host of handheld digital devices-- are going down the hatch. Between 2007 and 2009, the American Assn. of Poison Control Centers  received reports of 3,461 to 3,758 button-battery ingestion incidents yearly. 

A new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics says that lithium cell batteries -- especially those that are 20-millimeters (about three-quarters of an inch) or larger -- have become a particularly common danger to children.

Far from creating indefatigable bunnies or comic-strip characters, the ingestion of these batteries can have very bad consequences indeed: vocal cord paralysis, esophageal narrowing, and destruction or perforation of the trachea or gastric wall, causing bleeding that can be -- and has been -- fatal to some children. A total of 13 children died between 1985-2009 and 73 had "major outcomes" that caused an acute health crisis or ongoing health problems for the child. And in the past decade, roughly, 92.1% of the fatal and major cases involved 20-mm lithium cell batteries.  

via Los Angeles Times (blog)

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