What would happen if I swallowed a tamagotchi battery?
Swallowed a Button Battery? Each year, nearly 2,000 people of all ages in the US unintentionally swallow miniature disc or “button” batteries of the type used to power hearing aids, watches and calculators. The National Capital Poison Center in Washington, DC has been studying what happens when one of these button batteries is swallowed. Most button cells pass through the body and are eliminated in the stool. However, sometimes batteries can get “hung up “, and these are the ones that cause problems. A battery that doesn’t move through the gut, especially one that lodges in the esophagus, may adhere to tissue and leak or the electrical current passing through adjacent tissue can generate alkali. Chemical burns may result. When a battery is swallowed, it is impossible to know whether it will pass through or get “hung up”, however a number of factors are known to predict a bad outcome. If anyone swallows a battery, this is what you should do: 1) Call the 24-hour National Button Battery I
