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Investigators from the Children’s Hospital of Colorado and Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York present 2 case reports of button battery ingestion (BBI) from a lighted fidget spinner. Fidget spinners with light sources often contain lithium button batteries. The investigators describe clinical presentation and course.
The first patient was a previously healthy 4-year-old girl who had been chewing on a lighted fidget spinner before accidentally swallowing a piece of it. She was immediately brought to the ED. Chest x-ray identified a foreign body in the mid-esophagus. The patient subsequently vomited up the object, identified as a plastic disc that housed a 12-mm lithium button battery. She then began …
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