Acid Burns Toddler's Lung After She Swallowed Battery

Sophie Skill lucky to be alive after acid from a battery she swallowed burned through her lung  ©SWNS.com

A TODDLER is lucky to be alive after acid from a battery she swallowed burned through her lung.

The injury was so severe that little Sophie Skill spent six days on life support following an emergency operation.

She spent months recovering in hospital, after swallowing a
lithium battery the size of a 10p.

Two-year-old Sophie was playing in her front room at home when mum Clare noticed she had become agitated and started to cry.

The injury was so severe that little Sophie Skill spent six days on life support © SWNS.com

Clare said: "She was crying excessively like I had never heard before, and she was holding the back of her neck.

"She was so distressed, and I just knew she had swallowed something. My heart was beating so fast."


Concerned Clare immediately took her daughter to hospital, where an X-ray showed she had swallowed the small battery.

And within two hours of arriving at Sheffield Children's Hospital, South Yorks, Sophie was rushed to surgery to have it removed.



(Source::: thesun.co.uk)