ER visits double as more kids swallow batteries

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An increasing number of children are swallowing the button batteries that power everything from remote controls to musical greeting cards and can burn a hole in a child’s esophagus in less than two hours. From Inova Fairfax Hospital, NBC’s John Yang reports about this issue on The TODAY Show. – (May 15, 2012)