Button Battery Ingestion: A Conundrum of Preventable Sequelae Management

Foreign body ingestion is frequently encountered in infants and young children. In recent years, button batteries have become extremely common among household use. As a result of this, there has been an increase in the outcomes related to this button batteries ingestion. Literature reports that ther...

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Published inJournal of clinical and diagnostic research Vol. 13; no. 8; pp. MD01 - MD04
Main Authors Periasamy, Nikitha, Bhandarkar, Ajay, Ramaswamy, Balakrishnan, Pujary, Kailesh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited 01.08.2019
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aorto-oesophageal fistula
bleeding
foreign body
oesophageal burns
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Summary:Foreign body ingestion is frequently encountered in infants and young children. In recent years, button batteries have become extremely common among household use. As a result of this, there has been an increase in the outcomes related to this button batteries ingestion. Literature reports that there has been a 6.7 fold increase in the major or fatal outcomes associated with button battery ingestion. The complications are attributed to the electric current generated at the negative pole of the battery and the discharge of alkaline electrolytes, leading to liquefaction necrosis and also due to pressure necrosis. Here, authors’ report with two cases of button battery ingestion, of which one case had a fatal outcome and about the measures taken in the second case to avoid major or fatal consequences.
ISSN:2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI:10.7860/JCDR/2019/42057.13041