National Capital Poison Center (Battery Ingestion guidance)

What it is

The National Capital Poison Center operates the National Battery Ingestion Hotline and publishes the clinical guidance used for suspected button-battery ingestion.

What it covers

Triage and pre-hospital guidance for button and coin cell ingestion, including the honey protocol and its age restriction, and the 24-hour hotline at 1-800-498-8666.

How to verify

The guideline is published at poison.org/battery with revision dates.

How SafeMama uses it

The nursery button-battery page carries the protocol because a swallowed battery can cause severe injury in about two hours and a parent reading that page may be in the window. Two rules are absolute: the age restriction and hotline are quoted exactly, and the page is held in draft under requires_review until a human with medical review responsibility signs it off. Guidance this consequential does not ship on an automated pass.

Limitations / conflicts

This is emergency triage information, not medical advice, and the required disclaimer says so on every page that carries it. The honey protocol has a specific age floor and timing window; a paraphrase that blurs either is a safety defect, not a style choice. No commercial conflicts identified.