At 10pm on Monday 22 November, nine-year-old Sarah Wallace swallowed a small, flat battery from the remote control to her night light.
She must have done this because she remembered that a few weeks earlier she had put a small metal chain in her mouth, and liked the feeling of the texture.
It writes the Scottish newspaper The Scotsman. The family lives in the town of Kirkcaldy, located in Fife in Scotland.
Started screaming
At first, the nine-year-old must have been afraid of getting into trouble, but eventually she admitted to her mother and stepfather what she had done.
They called the local emergency number, and they did it right.
Shortly after, Sarah grabbed her chest and started screaming.
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Mora Joanne Wallace (35) and her husband Jamie Longland (38) decided to take action immediately instead of waiting for the ambulance.
“Only ten minutes after she had swallowed the battery, she screamed in pain and could not breathe properly,” mother Joanne Wallace told the Scottish online newspaper The Courier Evening Telegraph.
AT THE HOSPITAL: Here is Sarah Wallace (9) in the hospital, after she threw up the battery. The contents of the battery managed to leak out, but Sarah did not suffer serious permanent damage. Photo: SWNS / NTB
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Breathed and pestered
They thus decided to drive the nine-year-old to Victoria Hospital herself.
Mora describes to The Scotsman that her daughter was breathing and panting, while she leaned forward and grabbed her chest.
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She claims that her daughter had no plans to eat the battery:
Coincidentally, she needed to swallow her saliva. She did not put it in her mouth to eat it.
– Started to leak
Arriving at the hospital, the doctors are said to have taken X-rays of the nine-year-old’s chest, which showed that the battery was stuck in her esophagus.
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At this point, Sarah must have been quite bad in her breathing, so the doctors must have decided to give her diamorphine through her nose to calm her down.
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The medicine caused her to vomit, and this in turn led to her vomiting and the battery falling to the floor of the hospital, according to Joanne.
– It was black and blue, and it had started to leak. It looked like when you left the battery in a battery-powered object for six months too long, she tells The Scotsman.
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The little girl was taken to a hospital in Edinburgh to take more tests so doctors could assess how much damage the battery had done.
Release serious injuries
It was a few nerve-wracking minutes for the mother, which she herself describes as the most terrifying moment in life.
Investigations have shown that Sarah’s esophagus has suffered burns, because the battery started leaking while it was in her esophagus.
This could lead to some scarring in the throat when it starts to heal.
Therefore, the nine-year-old is still on the heartburn drug Omeprazole.
But she is said to have escaped more serious injuries because the medication she received in her nose caused her to throw up the battery quite quickly.
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– It was scary, but we were incredibly lucky. For many other children, the same situation could end fatally, she tells The Courier.
– Can be fatal
Joanne’s advice to all parents out there is therefore to check where such objects have been hidden, so that you can make sure that the children get them.
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Joe Meredith at NHS Lothian’s Royal Hospital for Children and Young People says her mother’s quick response averted a potential tragedy:
– Sarah is really lucky, because thanks to her mother’s quick actions, the damage from the battery was minimal. However, the situation could have been completely different. If such a battery is swallowed, it can cause serious damage to internal organs that can be fatal, he tells the newspaper.
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He also warns parents of young children against batteries, especially now that it is approaching Christmas, and one often finds batteries both in toys and in Christmas decorations.
He is very clear on what to do if you think your child has swallowed a battery: Take the child to the nearest emergency room, and do not give them anything to eat or drink – and do not try to make them vomit.
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