A ONE-year-old girl died vomiting blood from swallowing a button battery after doctors dismissed her parents’ frantic pleas for help, an inquest heard today.

Isabella Rees’ death is being examined at the Corners Court of Victoria in Australia after her parents took their little girl to the hospital multiple times in the days leading up to her death in 2015.

The court heard that Isabella’ symptoms varied from blackened faeces and a high fever to vomiting blood.

Mum Allison said she brought evidence of dirty nappies, blood clots found in her cot as well as pictures to the Sunshine Hospital to prove there was something wrong.

She told the court: “I knew why they weren’t going to believe us.

“Because every time we went we had evidence…we were just disregarded and turned away.

“It felt like we were hypochondriacs.”

The mum said she was made to feel like she was overreacting, The Herald Sun reported.

Allison said staff asked if Isabella had swallowed something as suspicion rose after she was seen holding a AA battery the day she got sick.

A doctor at the hospital said it was impossible and that whatever it was inside her was “passing through”.

The little girl was denied an X-Ray and an ultrasound.

Coroner Caitlin English is trying to determine if the hospital provided Isabella with the appropriate care and to find out when she swallowed the button battery.

There have been inconsistencies in a number of areas surrounding Isabella’s care between hospital staff,
records and her family members.

Allison said the family doesn’t know how or where her baby found the button battery because none of their devices at home are missing batteries.

The inquest is expected to hear from 17 witness including Sunshine Hospital staff, family and medical experts.