This is not the first time I have heard about something like that with this product. I can understand why some may confuse it with a fruit drink.
Posted on 05/25/2012 10:26:49 AM PDT by Rio
Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.
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when my oldest son was just 18 months old, we loaded the dishwasher, filled the cups with powdered detergent, turned around to put the box away, and when I turned back around, the damn kid had grabbed a handful of the powder and eaten it..... well, this stuff is caustic, we had to call poison control ( with this kid we were on a first name basis with poison control ) and they told us to take him to the hospital. They had to run a camera down his throat to make sure that no crystals had lodged into his throat and start eating through it.
Solution was a simple one... we switched to gel dishwasher soap..
This is not the first time I have heard about something like that with this product. I can understand why some may confuse it with a fruit drink.
I saw them in the store and thought they looked delicious!
Mine actually did.
Years ago, P&G hung samples of their new lemon dishwashing liquid on door knobs across the country. MANY women drank them.
Excuse me, but where are these kids parents? If you don’t want your kids to eat Tide or drink house cleaner, put it up where they can’t reach it!!!
What the hell.
Sure, SOME people might think its reasonable to store dangerous chemicals out of the reach of children, but shouldn’t the company that makes Tide have KNOWN that there are some people who wouldn’t think to take that precaution. And if they KNEW that some people would leave their product where children to get to it, wasn’t it NEGLIGENT of them to make it look like candy? I say, Sue! Sue! Sue! Sue! Sue!
/johnny
“My little Bobby has the cleanest colon on the block!”
As if Tide wasn’t the most expensive detergent on the market. How much more expensive to have it made into little packets? The cheap detergent works just fine with our laundry and even with no kids at home it’s stored on the top shelf.
I remember the promotion but I never heard that aspect of it till now. Dang.
No more "ring around the colon!"
My brother would drink a bottle of lemon juice as if it was water.
I still pucker up thinking about it.
This story is really about marketing and the lengths companies go through to make their products attractive to consumers. Detergent packs that look like gum drops and cleaning solutions that look like soft drinks evidently sell well, but are easily mistaken for candy or food by children. Also, we all know that if they made those dishwasher thingies yucky brown and shaped them like cat turds they’d still get the dishes clean, but wouldn’t pose the same danger to small children. A good lawyer could clean up working the attractive nuisance angle.
I bet your brother was wormfree.
Thank God I don’t drink heavily any more. Those would look delicious to a drunk person lol.
My 4-yr old daughter took one back into her room because she got into the laundry room but she didn’t want to eat it like the moron Senator from NY. She probably liked it because it was squishy and colorful. Container is now put away and closed firmly. Problem fixed with no government intervention required.
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