In Australia, around 20 children a week present to an emergency department with a button battery-related injury. On Wednesday, new laws will hopefully prevent these accidents from happening. Here’s what we all need to know about the new button battery laws.
A mum has spoken out of her agony after her two-year-old daughter died from swallowing a button battery.
A timely reminder to be on alert for button batteries. Plenty of Christmas decorations and popular gifts have them and, if a child gets to one and swallows it (which DOES happen), it can be fatal.
More action is needed to promote battery safety, according to the mums of two girls…