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Button Battery Dangers
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/n-VPKjhnrRU
If a child swallows a button battery that has passed into the stomach, a study to be presented to the Digestive Disease Week annual meeting concludes that the ingested object must be removed quickly to prevent damage to the gastrointestinal tract linings. Current recommendations suggest wait and see to allow the battery to pass through the gastrointestinal system.
These tiny coin-shaped batteries are found in small electronic devices including toys, key fobs, talking greeting cards, watches, and hearing aids.
A study by the Children’s Hospital Colorado that presents data from 68 kids treated at children’s hospitals in that state, Florida, and Ohio. The findings indicate that acid released by these ingested batteries leads to corrosive stomach lining injuries 60% of the time.
Because of this damage, the authors’ recommendation for immediate removal of the coin battery is far more aggressive and proactive than the current wait and see guidelines issued by the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and the National Capital Poison Center. These authorities have suggested allowing passage through the gastrointestinal tract for those batteries that have traversed through the esophagus into the stomach. In contrast, most guidelines from a variety of panels do recommend immediate endoscopic removal if the battery has lodged in the esophagus.
One problem is that parents and other caregivers are not always certain about the type of coin-shaped object that a child has swallowed. While coins can usually pass safely through the gastrointestinal tract, we can’t always be certain that the circular foreign body seen on x-ray is not a battery.
The safe money is on immediate removal of all circular ingested foreign bodies detected in the esophagus or stomach.
Digestive Disease Week. "Button batteries can rapidly damage stomach lining before symptoms appear: Experts recommend changing current practice of watchful waiting." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 May 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190518172524.htm.
#Ingestions #buttonbatteries #coinbatteries #parenting
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AMVidcast: https://youtu.be/n-VPKjhnrRU
If a child swallows a button battery that has passed into the stomach, a study to be presented to the Digestive Disease Week annual meeting concludes that the ingested object must be removed quickly to prevent damage to the gastrointestinal tract linings. Current recommendations suggest wait and see to allow the battery to pass through the gastrointestinal system.
These tiny coin-shaped batteries are found in small electronic devices including toys, key fobs, talking greeting cards, watches, and hearing aids.
A study by the Children’s Hospital Colorado that presents data from 68 kids treated at children’s hospitals in that state, Florida, and Ohio. The findings indicate that acid released by these ingested batteries leads to corrosive stomach lining injuries 60% of the time.
Because of this damage, the authors’ recommendation for immediate removal of the coin battery is far more aggressive and proactive than the current wait and see guidelines issued by the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and the National Capital Poison Center. These authorities have suggested allowing passage through the gastrointestinal tract for those batteries that have traversed through the esophagus into the stomach. In contrast, most guidelines from a variety of panels do recommend immediate endoscopic removal if the battery has lodged in the esophagus.
One problem is that parents and other caregivers are not always certain about the type of coin-shaped object that a child has swallowed. While coins can usually pass safely through the gastrointestinal tract, we can’t always be certain that the circular foreign body seen on x-ray is not a battery.
The safe money is on immediate removal of all circular ingested foreign bodies detected in the esophagus or stomach.
Digestive Disease Week. "Button batteries can rapidly damage stomach lining before symptoms appear: Experts recommend changing current practice of watchful waiting." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 May 2019. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190518172524.htm.
#Ingestions #buttonbatteries #coinbatteries #parenting