Some toys and other holiday gifts contain small batteries. We're sharing this story from earlier this year to remind parents what to do in an emergency.
When Maggie, 3, plays with her "Frozen" doll, she presses a button and it sings. Her parents were unaware that dangerous button batteries were in the toy but when Maggie swallowed one, they acted fast.When 3-year old Maggie told her mom Katie Jacobsen that she ate “that shiny thing,” Jacobsen knew it was bad.
“ said the best thing to do is give the child some honey,” Jacobsen said. “I had never heard of that.”August 25 is Jacobsen’s birthday and the family celebrated by ordering take-out from Cracker Barrel. Soon after dinner, Maggie shared that she had eaten the button battery and her parents rushed her to the emergency room.
“I said, ‘Well, we gave her honey because we had seen on a website that we’re supposed to do that,'” Jacobsen said. “I don’t think the nurse was aware that we had given her that because it was the right thing to do. But then doctor came in and told us that it was good that we gave her that.” Giving a child who swallowed a button battery honey can improve outcomes, but Jacobs stress that it’s still a medical emergency.
When a child swallows a button battery, which are often 2 cm and shiny, they can become lodged in the child’s esophagus. “They told us that it had passed into her stomach,” Jacobsen said. “Instead of it being an emergency surgery, it was, ‘We’re going to admit you.’”
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