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Writer: elitecontrollers
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News Date: 10 May 2010
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Researchers in the US found there has been a significant increase over the last 25 years in the percentage of severe injury and deaths in children who swallow batteries, at the same time as button batteries have become increasingly common for use in household products.
Two papers by Dr. Toby Litovitz of the National Capital Poison Center in Washington DC and colleagues published recently in the journal Pediatrics describe how they analyzed button battery ingestion cases, how they might be prevented, and what the clinical implications are.
When button batteries, such as the increasingly common 20 mm diameter lithium cell used to power many household products, get stuck in the throat they can cause severe tissue damage within just 2 hours of ingestion. Further damage can also ensue, such as paralysis of the vocal cords, narrowing or stricture of the esophagus or food pipe, a hole connecting the windpipe to the food pipe (tracheoesophageal fistula), or severe internal bleeding as a result of a hole into a major blood vessel.
In the first paper, the researchers describe how they analyzed a total of 8,648 battery ingestion cases that were reported to the National Battery Ingestion Hotline in the US.
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