Kids Are Swallowing Household Objects Like Coins, Toys and Even Batteries More Frequently: Study
Photo: Dolce Toys A study published this month in the journalPediatricsrevealed that kids are swallowing foreign objects (including coins, small toys and even potentially fatal button batteries) much more often than they did two decades ago. Dr. Orsagh-Yentis and her colleagues analyzed 30,000 cases (obtained through NEISS) of children who were treated in emergency-room departments after swallowing foreign objects. Based on this, they made the alarming estimation that over 750,000 children had been treated for the same medical issue between 1995 and 2015....