You probably won’t remember to stamp your littlest lithium batteries with a “Mr. Yuk” sticker – and it wouldn’t really fit. But these tiny batteries do warrant a warning for kids in a big way.
The New York Times reveals, in a recent report, the hazards of “button” batteries that power musical greeting cards, among other things.
In the Times feature, we read the story of Aidan Truett, a one-year-old boy from Ohio came down with a strange illness that doctors assumed was pneumonia after he spent nine days vomiting. After a chest X-ray, doctors found not an infection but one of the aforementioned batteries stuck in his gut.
The result, according to the
Times, was holes in his esophagus and aorta. The effects were ultimately fatal.
Yahoo Tech’s
Working Guy blogs “The message to parents is clear: Don’t just keep batteries away from kids, keep anything that contains a small battery away from them as well. In 60 percent of the cases involving young children, the kid got the battery out of an electronic device rather than encountering a loose battery cell.”
Edited by
Marisa Torrieri
