(2/5) A 3 year old kid came with ingestion of this battery while playing with a toy. Kid thought it it to be gems chocolate. X ray showed it to be in the stomach.

How it was retrieved by gastro team. Baby was doing fine after the procedure. (3/5)

(4/5) What are the possible complications? 🚨 1. It can rupture food pipe and may go into heart or lungs, may even cause death 2. It may perforate stomach or intestine 3. It can cause narrowing of food pipe, which may even need major surgery

(5/5) While we love our kids. We need to aware about these foreign body ingestion risks 👼 Button battery can be most deadening foreign body. Keep the environment baby friendly. Share the 1st tweet or tag your friends to help others know about this. Thank you 😇

@Least_ordinary What are the possible symptoms for knowing such ingestion

@dutta_manjeet Mostly it is history of ingestion or you may not be able to find that object. Others- coughing, vomiting, difficulty breathing or tummy pain. May be asymptomatic in many cases till it causes harm

@Least_ordinary I had swallowed chewing gum as a kid and my dad told me it'll get stuck and I won't be able to poop ever again LOL I never had gum again xD

@dr_vee95 😂😂 you are amazing

@Least_ordinary Thanks for your awareness..These are manufactured in india as well..Can we use them?

@billapraveenk No. All batteries are harmful. Usually chinese toys are cheap and batteries come out very easily while playing

@Least_ordinary I had a d2h connection whose remote had a big coin size button battery. I chnaged to a different provider the same week I met a toddler with an impacted button battery which led to a trachea esophageal fistula. My kid was of the same age as that baby.

@kiddo_doctor Mam, that’s really nice. I remember we had one acquired TEF and it was a very difficult case to do. So tough on this young kids to go through such trauma early in life

@Least_ordinary Have witnessed a case of aortoesophegeal fistula. Fatal ‼️

@mhtanoli Nightmare 😫 I wish I never get any such patient

@Least_ordinary Same happened with my daughter during initial days of first lockdown. Worst 2 days of my life

@ravindra_warake I hope your daughter is fine now? Do spread awareness about it to friends around you :)

@Least_ordinary What were the symptoms sir? I mean the kid would not have gone and told I swallowed a cell. Was he exhibiting any symptoms?

@nikhil_mt Mentioned in thread. Told his mom that I ate these gems and you should have one too.

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