This article is about a 3-year-old girl from Kiryat Malachi, Israel who swallowed a "button" battery. The battery was from her grandmother's blood sugar monitor that had been left on the couch. She was taken to the emergency room at Kaplan Medical Center and the toddler told the pediatric gastroenterologist that what she swallowed was a shekel coin. X-rays were taken, and it was discovered that the object she ingested was actually an alkaline battery. On top of that, the battery had begun to leak; the acid in her stomach had caused the metal casing to corrode. Under general anesthesia, the battery was removed. The toddler suffered an extreme burn in her esophagus from the battery, which will require continued treatment. The little girl also has to fast "to enable the tissue to begin recovering, and it will take some time until she can eat normally again.
It's scary, but also kind of humorous that toddlers and little babies will just pick up anything, and just eat it. This just shows you that if a guardian/parent doesn't pay close attention to their little babies, anything can happen to them. I'm glad this little girl is okay!
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