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A member asked:
This didn't happen and hopefully never will but i've been reading dangers of toddlers swallowing button batteries. how soon would symptoms show and what?
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Sudden colic: It is hard to define the delay before symptoms as ingestion is often unrecognised. Abdominal cramps/pain/sudden change in behavior may be your only signs.The button battery generates an electrical current that can destroy tissue and the battery eats through the wall of the stomach or intestines.This allows digestive debris including germs to leak into the inside of the body.Disaster is predicatble.
Answered 9/22/2016
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