Button Battery Powered Fidget Spinners: A Potentially Deadly New Ingestion Hazard for Children. Issue 4 (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Khalaf, Racha T.; Gurevich, Yoseph; Marwan, Ahmed I.; Miller, Angie L.; Kramer, Robert E.; Sahn, Benjamin
• Is Part Of: Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. Volume 66:Issue 4(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: button battery ingestion -- Consumer Product Safety Commission -- esophageal injury; Children -- Nutrition -- Periodicals; Pediatric gastroenterology -- Periodicals; Infants -- Nutrition -- Periodicals; Nutrition disorders in children -- Periodicals; Child Nutrition -- Periodicals; Digestive System -- growth & development -- Periodicals; Gastrointestinal Diseases -- Periodicals; Infant Nutrition -- Periodicals; Nutrition Disorders -- Periodicals; Child; 618.923
• DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000001892
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0277-2116

Abstract

Abstract : ABSTRACT: Toys entering the marketplace may have unrecognized hazard risks until data on injury become known. The fidget spinner is a new popular toy mass marketed to children and is primarily sold without warning labels. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has recently issued a formal statement on potential safety concerns related to ingestion of the toy parts and other hazards. Button batteries within this toy pose the greatest danger to children as ingestion can lead to lethal injury. We report 2 cases of children who swallowed a button battery from a fidget spinner, causing severe esophageal injury. Various aspects of this type of ingestion important for clinicians to be aware of are reviewed.