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"Child Resistant" hearing aid batteries — issues?

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In reply to @Reed

@Reed said:

There used to be a dial type birth control pill dispenser that would be perfect but as I recall the spaces are too small for a battery, bummer. Not sure what exists now.

Costco used to sell their Kirkland batteries in such a package - like a dial, I’d just rotate the top and then a cardboard “door” on the back side could be bent open so the battery would drop out. WHY can’t we have some form of THAT as package?

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In reply to @1Bluejay

Your rant is justified! Typical government overreach. Don’t get me started on it. I just had to spend $$ on six LED bulbs for my dining room light fixture because two of the incandescent bulbs burned out and I can’t buy replacements any longer. And that was after I cut my finger opening the package of batteries to replace my husband’s key fob battery. Grrr.

Fortunately, I bought a large supply of batteries for my Marvel backup aids before this insanity went into effect (rechargeable Phillips are my main aids) and I only use them when the small grandkids spend the night once or twice a month, so I can utilize the Phonak TV connector (god forbid they wake up from the TV sound after watching them all day!), but they’ll probably be expired before I use them all.

I’m disgusted with government and irresponsible people.

Is this a US only thing? I just received Rayovac 13 batteries with the old style packaging exp. date 05/28. supplied by UK NHS hearing clinic. I would have thought coming from a hospital, they would be first to supply batteries in child resistant packaging. Unless they are using up old stock.

In reply to @1Bluejay

All of mine are like that. X cell I think. What they’ve doe is put another layer of cardboard on to, with fingers that go between the batteries, keeping them from turning! That puts you cutting with the tips of the scissors. They are awful.

I want to drop by my Senator and representatives office and ask them to open them! Duracell looks like is going to have a whole lot more customers

Oh, rats. I didn’t realize this was some new insane regulation. Just opened a new box of Kirkland 312s recently and did have to attack one of the inner packages with scissors. Yes, I also gave myself a good cut on a finger while struggling with the blasted thing. So in my ignorance I was thinking I could just start ordering a different brand of batteries from now on that no clueless s.o.b. had made so hellish to open.

The people who come up with this stuff ought to wrap themselves and their families in bubble wrap and and leave the rest of us alone.

In reply to @blazingsword

@blazingsword said:

Might need to try a pill compartment carrier. Each single battery needs its own compartment, per my hearing instrument specialist; otherwise, they will discharge and no longer be good.

I carry mine in a pill container and they have their individual compartments.

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In reply to @MDB

MDB, what you are saying is not true. Take the batteries out of their packaging and throw them together in a container, with the colored stickers still on them, and the bodies of some of the batteries will touch each other and the batteries will go bad. I’ve done it. After a couple of weeks about half the batteries were shot. It’s OK to take the batteries out of the package, but they have to be kept apart from each other. Your suggestion to save some of the old battery packages and use them is an idea that works.

Thanks for the correction. I thought covering the holes with the sticker would prevent the chemical reaction from happening. I always use the old packaging.

They get shorted on the edge of other face away from the holes: it’s not the reaction happening, it’s just that the whole cell is at zero standing potential and that usually kills them.

Once your local Family Dollar sells down its current inventory you are going to be treated to an all-new experience in package opening. Guaranteed. :wink:

In reply to @MDB

It’s crazy! The family who allowed their child to access the coin battery put it inside the remote control to begin with. It wasn’t inside a childproof container. They also didn’t watch her and prevent the ingestion. They realized after it was burning her stomach she ingested it. This law is a bit redundant because it didn’t take into account the issue here: inadequate parental supervision. This can still happen when the batteries are out of any packaging: just like it did.

In reply to @WhiteHat

The batter pictured is a bigger battery; coin cell, which ironically are more accessible than the zinc air batteries which are actually exempt from this law; aside from the packaging, which is useless. There haven’t been issues with zinc air batteries, just larger coin ones.

In reply to @Bimodal_user

Yep; lithium ion battery pictured. The law was passed by parents who were negligent in supervising their child. They put the battery in the child-accessible remote control and didn’t prevent her from ingesting it. This law also doesn’t do any part to educate audiologists, parents or mandate child safety locks on hearing aids, which is proving to be redundant. It’s a bad case of parental guilt for something THEY should have prevented. But they didn’t. And couldn’t because they never noticed their child ingesting the battery.

In reply to @MFox

From the comments on here, the latter is really saying we’d just put them in other casing; which renders the law pointless. This law may have child safety in mind, but it isn’t doing much to actually prevent ingestion. Just pushing this parent’s guilt on the general public and trying to control them.

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