Can a Hearing Aid Battery Be Swallowed?
My first reaction on seeing the title was to start sniggering but reading on, I was mortified.
This is no joke.
Swallowing hearing aid batteries is a risk that every parent of a young hearing aid user faces. Although children’s hearing aids have battery compartments that are allegedly childproof, these compartments can still fail or break, or a young child could figure out how to open the battery compartment. If batteries are not properly stored or discarded out of a young child’s reach, the child could swallow.
Swallowing hearing aid batteries is a risk that every parent of a young hearing aid user faces. Although children’s hearing aids have battery compartments that are allegedly childproof, these compartments can still fail or break, or a young child could figure out how to open the battery compartment. If batteries are not properly stored or discarded out of a young child’s reach, the child could swallow them.
