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Family, medical professionals warn of risks posed by ingestible batteries, magnets during holidays
When Luke McMillan was just a year old, his mother noticed he started to have trouble eating, so she took him to the doctor. At the time, nobody knew the little boy had swallowed a button battery designed to go inside a toy. “My husband, KC, and I weren’t home at the time and Luke had been crawling around and picked it up and swallowed it,” said his mother, Erica McMillan. “He acted sick, so we took him to the doctor and they said he had an ear infection.” The issue persisted, so Luke’s parents took him back to the doctor, only to be told he had acid reflux, but that ...
