DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Each year nearly 3,000 children are treated in emergency rooms after ingesting a button battery, according to the National Safety Council. Button batteries are roughly the size ...

Look around your house. Chances are you've got toys and other household items powered by those tiny button-size batteries. What you may not know is that they’re potentially deadly if swallowed. A new ...

Children can suffer serious or deadly injuries after swallowing button batteries, which power a wide range of household items. Physicians say serious injury can happen within two hours, sometimes ...

PUTTING YOUR FAMILY AT RISK. BUTTON AND COIN CELL BATTERIES ARE TINY BUT POWERFUL. YOU CAN FIND THEM IN EVERYTHING FROM TEA LIGHTS TO TOYS AND IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY’RE UNIQUELY ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Many households have toys and other items powered by tiny button-sized batteries, but what you might not realize is that these little power sources can be deadly if swallowed.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Look around your house. Chances are you’ve got toys and other household items powered by those tiny button-size batteries. What you may not know is that they’re potentially ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — As the holiday season approaches, many toys and decorations use small – but powerful – button cell batteries, which can be hazardous to children. Parents need to remain vigilant ...

ATLANTA — Despite new safety laws aimed at protecting children, button and coin cell batteries remain a potentially deadly hazard. A Consumer Reports investigation found that many household items ...

The new battery by Energizer, with “color alert technology,” comes nearly two years after a report warned that more children were swallowing batteries. By Aimee Ortiz Almost two years after a report ...