Button batteries

**mumofone** · 09-02-2016, 11:13 AM

I keep reading that there's have been some accidents with button batteries but I'm wondering how this happening and what we should be doing to avoid these risks?

**mama2three** · 09-02-2016, 11:27 AM

Just check that the children cant open the battery cover , lots are screwed in but not all. If in doubt I cover it with duck tape.

**tulip0803** · 09-02-2016, 12:10 PM

People leave them lying around when they change the batteries - make sure they are out of reach and dispose of used ones properly as they still contain the acid that causes the damage internally

As Mama says most of these types of battery normally have screw covers - My risk assessment is that all toys should have screw covers on the battery cover otherwise I wont use them.

**k1rstie** · 09-02-2016, 01:50 PM

There is a huge risk from children swallowing them, and also a huge risk with older people swallowing them. My stepfather has tiny batteries in his hearing aids, which need to be changed very regularly. They are the size of a small tablet. An accident could happen if he were to swallow one, thinking it were a tablet, without his glasses on. His ones as so tiny, you could possibly think that they are so small it wouldn't do any damage.

Button batteries range in size from a largish coin size to tiny tiny, as used in hearing aid batteries.

I have a button battery poster in my parents pack, similar to this one I have just googled. I have also spoken to my parents about their hearing aid ones!

**BallyH** · 09-02-2016, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by k1rstie

There is a huge risk from children swallowing them, and also a huge risk with older people swallowing them. My stepfather has tiny batteries in his hearing aids, which need to be changed very regularly. They are the size of a small tablet. An accident could happen if he were to swallow one, thinking it were a tablet, without his glasses on. His ones as so tiny, you could possibly think that they are so small it wouldn't do any damage.

Button batteries range in size from a largish coin size to tiny tiny, as used in hearing aid batteries.

I have a button battery poster in my parents pack, similar to this one I have just googled. I have also spoken to my parents about their hearing aid ones!

Thank you for sharing.

**mumofone** · 09-02-2016, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by k1rstie

There is a huge risk from children swallowing them, and also a huge risk with older people swallowing them. My stepfather has tiny batteries in his hearing aids, which need to be changed very regularly. They are the size of a small tablet. An accident could happen if he were to swallow one, thinking it were a tablet, without his glasses on. His ones as so tiny, you could possibly think that they are so small it wouldn't do any damage.

Button batteries range in size from a largish coin size to tiny tiny, as used in hearing aid batteries.

I have a button battery poster in my parents pack, similar to this one I have just googled. I have also spoken to my parents about their hearing aid ones!

Gosh of course, i wouldnt have ever even thought of them being a risk to the old but i see how they are, scary.