Battery Ingestion Causes

• Disk battery ingestion most commonly occurs in children younger than 5 years (61.8%) and in elderly people (10.3%).

• Common scenarios of ingestion involve young children swallowing their own hearing aid battery or eating batteries lying loose after they were removed from a device. Other times, the batteries are mistaken for a pill and ingested.

• Occasionally, people accidentally swallow a battery because they hold it in their mouth when changing their watch battery. Only a very small number of people intend to commit suicide by ingesting disk batteries (1.3%).