Ahead of the holiday season getting fully into swing, doctors are warning metro Atlanta area parents about the dangers of children swallowing batteries.
Channel 2’s Tom Regan was at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital in DeKalb County, where he learned the number of cases of children ingesting batteries is rising.
It’s becoming more common for children to swallow what are called button batteries, and if they do, it can be extremely harmful and even deadly…