Deadly button batteries

I've known about this for a while. There is a poster about the dangers of them in our pre school. I gather new batteries are more dangerous than used ones as they are more powerful.

Luckygirl - glad DGS was all right.
Jings - yes, I was surprised to have never come across that warning before.

Also anything with magnets in is a danger; if a child swallows two they can obviously adhere to each other in the intestines.

Very worrying. I would never have thought about it. They must be in everyone's junk drawer. Sounds horrible.

Funny how these things pop up all over the place out of the blue. It will probably be in the newspapers as well.

My DGS was taken to hospital as it was feared he had swallowed one of these - he had got into a drawer and amongst the strewn objects on the floor was a button battery. DD did not even know there were any in there, so had no idea if there were more and if he had swallowed any. A&E took it all very seriously and shot him through to x-ray pdq. All was well.

What worried me was that they are so much more lethal than other small objects which could be swallowed. Many come harmlessly out the other end.
I guess we all tend to assume 'everyone' knows what we know, Nina!

ALL batteries contain very nasty and poisonous chemicals, mercury, lithium, cadmium etc. Which is why they should be disposed of at a collection center, not put in he bin.
But I'm sure we never put them in the bin, do we.

Sorry but I'm a little surprised you weren't aware of this advice already.
They've just had an article about it on BBC Breakfast with graphic filming. So let's hope it does raise awareness.