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Healthy Colorado: Health experts warn about small toys this holiday

Doctors recommend that parents stick to buying age-appropriate toys this holiday.

December 19, 2025
Child in blue helmet and white ski gogles gives a thumbs up in a gloved hand.

"Button batteries, bouncy balls, those water beads," says Savannah Bernal, trauma and injury prevention coordinator at HCA HealthONE Swedish. "Anything like that are time-sensitive things, where as soon as you know that they've been ingested, they've been swallowed, you need to take them to the E.R. right away."

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Published:
December 19, 2025
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