If a Child Ingests a Button Battery, This One Thing Might Save Their Life

Best to know it and never have to use it.

Adelina Vasile
4 min readSep 7, 2022

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Small 3V button battery on a green background with yellow checks.
Image by Olaf from Pixabay

“Button batteries are ingested more than 3,500 times per year in the United States.” (Source)

Button batteries can kill children.

And you have at least one such battery in your home as you’re reading this. Possibly on…

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Adelina Vasile

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself. Check my Substack here >> https://undressingcopy.substack.com/