Button batteries, plastic toys and coins: how to treat children who ingest foreign bodies
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Button batteries, plastic toys and coins: how to treat children who ingest foreign bodies

Erin Dean Health journalist

More children and teenagers are attending emergency departments with these presentations

Picking up a small toy or coin and swallowing it – or poking it up their nose or into their ear – is a common reason for many small children ending up in a hospital emergency department (ED).

Emergency Nurse. 30, 2, 7-9. doi: 10.7748/en.30.2.7.s2

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