Terrified mom watches in horror as toy battery burns hole in toddler's throat READ MORE: Mother warns parents after daughter swallowed battery from toy By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:41 GMT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 21:41 GMT, 31 October 2024 e-mail View comments When one-year-old Keith Karre swallowed a small battery, his family's world was turned upside down. Keith was playing with a toy phone in his living room beside his brother in January when he suddenly popped the battery out of the phone and into his mouth.
His mom, Katie Woodside, described it as ‘the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.’ She and her husband, Nick Karre, struggled to fish the small button-like item out of their baby’s throat, but he was turning blue, foaming at the mouth, and coughing up blood . An ambulance rushed them to the hospital, where doctors confirmed the baby had swallowed a button battery , a small and flat circular object.
Ms Woodside, a hairdresser from New York, said: ‘When these batteries get wet, they have a chemical reaction and bubble up. They eat through the skin so they ate through his throat. ‘He passed out from the pain.
It was absolutely terrible.’ Doctors performed surgery for 90 minutes to remove the button and Keith had to recover in the intensive care unit for two weeks. Keith Karre now has scarring in his esophagus and is expected to have issues for life Doctors performed surgery for 90 minutes to remove the bu.