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News by Jackie Sinnerton Premium Content   Australians love a Kmart bargain but one product is causing shoppers grave concern that it could actually be deadly. Ladybird toys for dogs are being sold for $7 at the bargain store but they contain button batteries which could kill an animal if ingested. "Dogs can easily rip to pieces these play toys and even if they don't swallow the battery themselves they could leave it on the floor for a child to pick up," Brisbane veterinarian Dr Josh Llinas said. When chewed or punctured alkaline batteries leak a caust...

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?

“I was a bit numb when I heard,” she said. “I thought ‘oh my god is this really happening, have we really done this’? “I did all this for her and the all those other kids,” 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 ...

“I was a bit numb when I heard,” she said. “I thought ‘oh my god is this really happening, have we really done this’? “I did all this for her and the all those other kids,” 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 ...