I for one didn't realise lithium button batteries were as dangerous as this for little kids:
SAFETY experts are trying to educate parents about the dangers of button batteries after the death of a young girl who swallowed one.
Specialists tried desperately to save the four-year-old after she was taken to a hospital on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on Sunday with stomach bleeding.
But there was little that could be done for her.
Safety experts say they're worried parents don't fully understand the dangers in so many household items.
Kidsafe Queensland says an estimated four children a week are rushed to emergency departments across Australia each week after swallowing the batteries.
The biggest danger is when parents don't realise their child has swallowed a button battery, which tends to lodge in kids' throats.
Often parents can simply think their child is coming down with something, with symptoms including vomiting, coughing, abdominal pain and fever.
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