Keep the following items out of sight and reach of your child:
- Foods like popcorn, dried peas, watermelon seeds, nuts
- Marbles, buttons, beads, and pen lids
- Polystyrene balls found in bean bags and stuffed toys – these can be inhaled and don’t show up on x-rays
- Coins
- Small batteries, including button batteries or products that contain them (batteries are dangerous if swallowed)
- Toys with removable eyes or noses and toys with other small parts, like LEGO
- Needles, pins, and safety pins
- Small magnets
Tips to Prevent Children Swallowing or Inserting Foreign Objects:
- Supervise young children when they eat, especially when eating small foods such as peas, sweetcorn, or popcorn.
- Supervise young children when they are playing and check the floor for small objects they could find.
- Avoid playing with beads, games with small pieces, or LEGO that a child could stick somewhere.
- Don’t put pen lids, pins, or other objects in your mouth as children may try to mirror what you do.
- Keep all batteries away from children and make sure batteries are NOT accessible in toys.
- foods like popcorn, dried peas, watermelon seeds, nuts
- marbles, buttons, beads and pen lids
- polystyrene balls found in bean bags and stuffed toys − these can be inhaled and don’t show up on x-rays coins
- small batteries, including button batteries or products that contain them (batteries are dangerous if a child swallows them)
- toys with removable eyes or noses and toys with other small parts, like LEGO
- needles, pins and safety pins
- small magnets
