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Got New Batch of Hearing Aids Batteries, packaging is also NEW Harder to Access.

Whisky

ATF. I use all three.
Staff member
Kids ruin every thing. And social media does as well. Just because other people can't pay attention to their kids i have to buy scissors or a honing system and learn how to keep my knife sharp. An extra expense for me so i can open packaging?

I can understand people are worried about kids but the kids parents should be worried the most. Packaging doesn't need safety, ok theft protection i can understand though. But why are people letting their kids have or be near things in a store that could hurt them? Or around packaged stuff at home that might be dangerous? Or is the thought "their are poor people that might steal this and might not have cabinets or anything to keep our product from getting into their kids hands"

Their kids are their problem and shouldn't affect (i always get these mixed up) me or be my problem.

To me life is a constant learning thing. And my not knowing or me being stupid should only effect(?) me and no one else. And my not knowing or stupidity should not affect packaging...

The reason for all the hoopla about the batteries is that a lot of adults and 100% of toddlers don’t know they’re dangerous. The batteries are small and shiny, a lot like some candies. Anyone with a toddler will tell you that 1) they’re magical creatures and can disappear if you stop looking at them for 5sec, 2) they have a tendency to find things that you don’t know you had or lost 4yrs ago, and 3) put EVERYTHING in their mouths.

Personally I would rather cuss opening the package than have ANY parent go through the heartache of losing or even having a severely injured child. Maybe that’s just me.

I will agree that the majority of warning labels are dumb. But I also remember when there wasn’t tamper proof packaging and someone put cyanide in Tylenol bottles.
 
Well as I said when I got my First Battery Operated Hearing Aids, the Audiologist at the VA told me to be careful with Batteries, and Dead Batteries. She said they were HIGHLY TOXIC.

So I got the info, use it, dispose of properly. The one RUB with NEW PACKAGING is, in the old Package you can remove fresh battery, put dead battery in the empty hole, when the container is Empty, you tape little access door shut, and dispose of 8 dead batteries.

With NEW Packaging you have noting to put DEAD BATTERIES in, so disposable is more of problem.

So now we have Reese’s Law, but I am willing to bet Kids, and Animals will still suffer from improperly disposed of batteries.

LAWS IMHO do not stop stupidity, buddy is retire firefighter, paramedic, he said dump people, doing dumb things, was job security for first responders.
 
The reason for all the hoopla about the batteries is that a lot of adults and 100% of toddlers don’t know they’re dangerous. The batteries are small and shiny, a lot like some candies. Anyone with a toddler will tell you that 1) they’re magical creatures and can disappear if you stop looking at them for 5sec, 2) they have a tendency to find things that you don’t know you had or lost 4yrs ago, and 3) put EVERYTHING in their mouths.

Personally I would rather cuss opening the package than have ANY parent go through the heartache of losing or even having a severely injured child. Maybe that’s just me.

I will agree that the majority of warning labels are dumb. But I also remember when there wasn’t tamper proof packaging and someone put cyanide in Tylenol bottles.
Ok, i can understand this a little bit because the danger of these types of batteries to babies and young kids and how the batteries might look to them.

Packaging also doesn't prevent or stop a battery from being lost or anything like that. All packaging can do is have warnings printed on them, be packaged to prevent theft and to look eye catching to customers.

What a kid and their parent/parents do at home has nothing to do with me... And packaging of these batteries will not fully protect anybody including kids from playing with or eating them. So secure packaging can help with the playing and eating but once a battery is out of it's package, safety is on everybody else not the package.

I emailed my cousin she has been "deaf" her whole life and has 3 kids (adults now), i asked her in that email if the packages for her hearing aids and the other hearing devices she had/has need over protection or not.

And say or think what you all want to about me. I care for and would protect anybody near me if a terrible thing is happening and i think i can help or whatever. But if i can't help because saftey packaging prevents me from helping... oooops...
 
Sorry if I came off a little harsh. Wasn’t speaking to you directly, I apologize.

I have to apologize to you as well and everybody else. I didn't take what has been said as something about or towards me. But my thoughts are a wide range of my thoughts about warning labels and the like and i went into the fast lane to get past the main line of this thread.
 

Kentos

B&B's Dr. Doolittle.
Staff member
Alkaline AA etc batteries are not that dangerous. I still wouldn’t want a kid to swallow one but they don’t cause tissue erosion. Did anyone else used to dare your friends to put the terminals of 9v battery on their tongue. It gives you a healthy shock but doesn’t kill you.

The button batteries are all lithium batteries which is what causes the problem. Lithium AA’s etc can cause the same kind of issues but they’re much harder to swallow so not considered as dangerous.

I get the feeling most of the danger came when manufacturers went from mercury and silver to lithium.
 

Eben Stone

Staff member
To me life is a constant learning thing. And my not knowing or me being stupid should only effect(?) me and no one else. And my not knowing or stupidity should not affect packaging...
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Maybe your actions only affect you, but some people are so stupid it's like the stupidity can't be contained and it just oozes out of them and affects everyone else around them.

Take for instance the kid that tried to build a nuclear reactor in his back yard. It's a true story: David Hahn. What would happen if he actually got his hands on something that had lethal amounts of radiation? What if his shed caught in fire?

Now imagine living next door to someone like that.
 

Legion

OTF jewel hunter
Staff member
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Maybe your actions only affect you, but some people are so stupid it's like the stupidity can't be contained and it just oozes out of them and affects everyone else around them.

Take for instance the kid that tried to build a nuclear reactor in his back yard. It's a true story: David Hahn. What would happen if he actually got his hands on something that had lethal amounts of radiation? What if his shed caught in fire?

Now imagine living next door to someone like that.

“The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.”​

― Ricky Gervais
 

cleanshaved

I’m stumped
I just bought some button batteries for the key fob on my car. It had a slit in the back of the pack.
Now that sounds like it was an easy opening win but I do wonder how long they have been on the shelf.

I have no real problem with having to use scissors to get the batteries out but I'm not old suffering with arthritis, where I could see it being an issue.

@Whisky That is eye opening to hear just how quick the swallowing of a button battery went so wrong.
I have always made sure to remove used batteries away from reach, as both children and pets could ingest them.
 
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