Button Battery Ingestion: A Conundrum of Preventable Sequelae Management
Published: August 1, 2019 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2019/42057.13041
Nikitha Periasamy, Ajay Bhandarkar, Balakrishnan Ramaswamy, Kailesh Pujary
1. Junior Resident, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
2. Associate Professor, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
3. Professor, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
4. Professor and Head, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Nikitha Periasamy,
Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal-576104, Karnataka, India.
E-mail: niki_3592@yahoo.com
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.
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