If you use a hearing aid, these steps are especially important. Look at every medicine you intend to swallow.Turn on the lights, put on your glasses, read the label and look at the medicine itself. Don’t leave them on bedside tables or place them loose in your pocket or purse. Don't store batteries near pills or in pill bottles. Never put batteries in your mouth, to test, to hold, or for any reason. Tips for Protecting Older Children and Adults Don't insert or change batteries in front of small children. 
That can be quite a burden since most hearing aid users remove the batteries from the aids each time they take the aids off.
Alert family members who wear hearing aids to the importance of keeping the batteries out of reach of small children at all times. Make sure all hearing aids for children have child-resistant battery compartments and make sure the lock is activated when the child is wearing the aid. Don't allow children to play with batteries or with battery powered products that have easily accessible batteries. If swallowed and not removed promptly, these larger button batteries can cause death - or burn a hole through your child's esophagus. These problem cells can be recognized by their imprint (engraved numbers and letters) and often have one of these 3 codes: CR2032, CR2025, CR2016. The 20 mm diameter lithium cell is one of the most serious problems when swallowed. Be especially cautious with any product that contains a battery that is as big as a penny or larger. Only purchase products that require a screwdriver or tool to open the battery compartment, or that are closed with a child-resistant locking mechanism. Use strong tape to secure compartments that children can open or that might pop open if the device is dropped. Check all household devices to be certain the battery compartment is secured shut. If recycling is not possible, wrap used batteries securely and discard them where a child can’t find them. Store spare batteries, and batteries to be recycled, out of sight and reach of young children. Serious complications have also been seen when small batteries are placed in the nose or ear - another situation where urgent removal is critical. Batteries beyond the esophagus rarely cause a problem and can usually be left to pass spontaneously if the patient remains asymptomatic. Burns and life-threatening complications can occur if batteries aren't removed from the esophagus within 2 hours. Large diameter button batteries, especially 20 mm diameter lithium coin cells, are implicated in most of these serious cases, but other battery types and smaller button batteries may also get stuck and cause serious problems. Fatalities and cases with severe esophageal or airway burns and subsequent complications have been reported, even in patients who initially have no symptoms after swallowing the battery.These disastrous outcomes occur when batteries get stuck in the esophagus, usually in small children. While most button battery ingestions are benign, passing through the gut without a problem, in recent years the number of debilitating or fatal battery ingestions has dramatically increased.
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