A toddler has died after swallowing a battery over the Christmas holidays.
Two-year-old Brianna Florer was taken ill just a day after opening her presents at her grandparents home on Boxing Day.
The youngster, from Oklahoma, was rushed to hospital after her skin turned blue and she began throwing up blood.
Grandfather Kent Vice told Tulsa World: "On Saturday she was fine. It was a perfect Christmas."
Doctors determined the tot had swallowed a small button battery and she was immediately transferred to another hospital for surgery.
They operated on her for two and a half hours, but they couldn’t stop the bleeding.
"They believed the battery (acid) ate through to her carotid artery by way of her esophagus... We had no idea when she swallowed it ."
Parents Brian and Stephanie Florer were told their daughter had most likely swallowed the battery within six days of her death, Tulsa World reported.
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