Grieving mom warns parents after toddler, 2, swallowed button battery and bled to death as it eroded his intestines

3years ago

North Carolina news, US news.

The distraught mom of a 23-month-old boy whose death was as tragic as avoidable is warning parents to observe what children put in their mouths.

The mom and dad, both paramedics, watched helplessly as Johnathan Huff vomited blood and suffered unbearable fever.

They said that on Dec. 16, and as they got ready for work, Huff reached to a key finder remote that opens easily and swallowed the killer battery.

For the next few days, the boy kept vomiting blood in daycare and at home.

Doctors did X-rays and gave medicines to help with a 101-degree fever linked to bronchiolitis.

The parents stayed at home to watch over their son who coughed and vomited blood but still kept smiling, until the fateful December 20, when his condition took a tragic turn.

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  • Johnathan was coughing violently, leaving his mom’s shirt blood-soaked. He suffered a seizure and became limp as the panicked parents drove him to an area hospital.

    “I pinched his nose and I blew air but when I blew air down into his lungs it was like blowing underwater,” the grieving mom recalls. “There was no air going in and when I took my mouth off, bright red blood just gurgled out of him.”

    By the time the toddler reached the hospital, his lips turned blue and his pulse vanished. He was pronounced dead upon arrival.

    “The nurse said that they tried to draw blood for labs but he had no bleed in his body anymore, none,” she added. An autopsy would later locate the button battery in Johnathan’s intestines.

    His cause of death was ruled hemorrhage into the gastrointestinal tract and esophageal and aortic wall erosion.

    “Putting duct tape over the back of the remote could have stopped this,” the regretful mom said.

    “I can’t bring back Johnathan, but if there is anything I can do to make more parents search through their homes, then that’s something.”