the High Authority for Health warns against the ingestion of button batteries

The High Authority for Health has issued an alert about button batteries. “1,200 children end up in the pediatric emergency room every year after ingesting a button cell battery”, indicates the journalist Jean-Christophe Batteria, present on the set of 12/13, Friday February 18. Yes “in most cases, it goes well, all the practitioners who worked on this study confirm it: they had to know the death of a child following the ingestion of a button battery”continues the journalist.

If the button batteries are “harmless in the open air” and to the touch, they become dangerous when they are wet, or immersed in a liquid. “They emit a base, a very corrosive element as powerful as what we use to unclog a pipe”, explains Jean-Christophe Battery. The victim can “die of an internal perforating hemorrhage in two hours”, he says. If a button battery is swallowed, immediately call 15 or the poison control centre, and “especially not to make the child vomit”concludes the journalist.