Girl leaves hospital with battery in nose

A four-year-old girl has been sent home from a Victorian hospital after doctors failed to notice the battery stuck up her nose.

Shaylee Wilson, of Cranbourne, was taken to Casey Hospital on March 30 after her mother noticed she had something up her nose.

After a specialist tried to scrape out what was believed to be a piece of gravel or rock, she was told she could go home.

The specialist said she should make an appointment for an operation, which would take at least five days.

But her mother, Brooke Ferguson, refused to listen.

“No one knew what was up her nose. The specialist tried to scrape it out but just left her with blood in her nose and mouth,” Ms Ferguson told the Cranbourne Leader.

She then took her daughter to the Royal Children’s Hospital where doctors were able to remove the battery.

X-rays showed Shaylee had burns inside her nose and could have risked serious harm if it had been left there for five days.

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