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Four trips to hospital in three weeks, a misdiagnosis and a preventable death. A button battery was inside Isabella Rees for almost three weeks before the toddler died. So why were her symptoms mistaken for a virus?
âI was a bit numb when I heard,â she said.
âI thought âoh my god is this really happening, have we really done thisâ?
âI did all this for her and the all those other kids,â Ms Shoesmith said.
Those other children sadly includes 14-month-old Isabella Rees who died in a Melbourne hospital in 2015 after swallowing a button battery.
Then tragically in July last year three-year-old Gold Coast tot Brittney Conway suffered the same painful death as the battery burned through her oesophagus and into her aorta.
The Federal Government cites at least 44 cases of young children suffering severe injuries from ingesting button batteries since December 2017.
âI was a bit numb when I heard,â she said.
âI thought âoh my god is this really happening, have we really done thisâ?
âI did all this for her and the all those other kids,â Ms Shoesmith said.
Those other children sadly includes 14-month-old Isabella Rees who died in a Melbourne hospital in 2015 after swallowing a button battery.
Then tragically in July last year three-year-old Gold Coast tot Brittney Conway suffered the same painful death as the battery burned through her oesophagus and into her aorta.
The Federal Government cites at least 44 cases of young children suffering severe injuries from ingesting button batteries since December 2017.