What is the harm if a cell is swallowed?

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 What happens if someone swallows batteries or a common cell used in watches, toys and other common items?

At least one person's incident indicates that the outcome may not be much better, but the hospital's emergency ward may be dizzy.
A case report published in the medical journal Journal of Internal Medicine states that when a man was rushed to a hospital emergency room, doctors thought he was suffering from a heart attack.
But it was wrong. In fact, it swallowed a cell that disrupted the heart's electrical system.
When doctors removed the cell, the system returned to normal.
The 26-year-old was a prisoner in an Italian prison who was rushed to the emergency hospital at Santa Maria Nueva Hospital in Florence after he complained of abdominal pain.
Two hours before the incident, he had deliberately swallowed a double A cell and doctors examined him on an X-ray.
They inserted electrodes into the chest to record the heart's electrical movement and make a graph.
This procedure is called EKG and it discovered a heart attack.
That was the only sign of a heart attack, he had never had a coronary heart disease before and was addicted to smoking, a risk factor for heart disease.
He did not report any heart attack symptoms such as shortness of breath while other things were normal.
Cases of cell swallowing and electrical activity of the heart have been reported in cases before.
Once upon a time, one person swallowed 6 triple A batteries and another swallowed 18 double A batteries.
Doctors in the previous case had suggested that the reason was to swallow more than one cell, but this new case has rejected this idea.
Guy L. Mintz, a doctor at Sandra Atlas Boss Heart Hospital in Northwest Health, New York, who was not among the doctors involved in the case, said: It works like a heart attack.
"We don't think most doctors will know," he said. "If a patient swallows a cell, his heart functions should be checked and the cell removed as soon as possible."
But why does a cell mimic a heart attack? So in this case, the idea was expressed that this cell, after coming in contact with gastric acid, creates an electric current that travels to the heart and affects the EKG.
According to experts, although these patients did not experience a real heart attack, swallowing a cell could potentially damage the heart because long-term electrical effects can be devastating to the heart.
Fortunately, the patient in this new case did not experience any complications due to the battery.