'I was begging the doctors not to let her die': Mum's warning after baby spent weeks in coma after swallowing battery

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Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids A young tot spent weeks in a coma after swallowing a button battery which burned a hole in her oesophagus and generated electricity inside her.

Now her mum is warning others following the incident which left her needing nine months of rehabilitative therapy. Zineb Sadouk, 37, from Gorton, still doesn’t know how her three-year-old daughter, Sophia, then one, managed to get the small car key battery from a tall shelf and swallow it.

When the youngster started vomiting and refusing food, the mum of two and husband, Yahya, 52, rushed her to A&E. But they didn’t discover what had happened until X-rays revealed the