"Button batteries, bouncy balls, those water beads," says Savannah Bernal, trauma and injury prevention coordinator at HCA HealthONE Swedish. "Anything like that are time-sensitive things, where as soon as you know that they've been ingested, they've been swallowed, you need to take them to the E.R. right away."
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