Every parent’s worst nightmare is something bad happening to their child.
One Oklahoma family had to deal with the unthinkable when their two-year-old girl died after ingesting a battery smaller than the size of a coin. Brianna Florer’s grandfather, Kent Vice told the Oklahoman that his granddaughter wasn’t feeling well for the past few days on a Sunday, and had a low fever.
Little Brianna’s parents, Brian and Stephanie Florer had to call an ambulance shortly after when Brianna started throwing up blood and turned blue. Brianna was rushed to the hospital in Tulsa, and although she immediately went into surgery, she later died.
An x-ray revealed that Brianna had swallowed a small button battery that was believed to have eaten its way through to her carotid artery by the way of her esophagus. Her surgery lasted two hours, but unfortunately, doctors couldn’t stop the bleeding.
‘One minute she is perfect, and the next minute she is dead,’ Vice said. ‘We had no idea when she swallowed it (the battery).’
Vice’s parents don’t even know how the toddler got the battery in the first place. Doctors reveal that Brianna probably ingested in within six days of her tragic death.
Sadly, there were 11,940 cases of children swallowing batteries from 2005 to 2014, and according to the National Capital Poison Center, 15 children in those cases died. While batteries will often pass out of the system before causing any harm, fatal cases occur when the battery gets stuck and secretes an alkaline substance.
Vice tells the DailyMail that he hopes his granddaughter’s death will bring about change. “I want to keep these things out of house,” he said. “They are dangerous.”
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