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Coins, Hijab pins and batteries: What your toddler swallows when you aren't looking
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Coins, Hijab pins and batteries: What your toddler swallows when you aren't looking

Doctors advise parents to be careful to prevent their children from accessing these things

Four-month-old Vishakha, who weighs 2.3 kg (5 lbs) and suffers from severe malnutrition, is carried at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh February 1, 2012. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia's third largest. Reuters/Adnan Abidi
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