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Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs
Associated Press via YahooNews ^ | May 25, 2015 | NOMAAN MERCHANT

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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To: Rio

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..


21 posted on 05/25/2012 10:58:30 AM PDT by joe fonebone (I am the 15%)
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To: houeto
My youngest brother recently drank about 1/3 of one of these

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.


22 posted on 05/25/2012 11:00:10 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Rio

I saw them in the store and thought they looked delicious!


23 posted on 05/25/2012 11:01:36 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: donhunt

Mine actually did.


24 posted on 05/25/2012 11:01:36 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1221 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: houeto

Years ago, P&G hung samples of their new lemon dishwashing liquid on door knobs across the country. MANY women drank them.


25 posted on 05/25/2012 11:03:49 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Rio

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.


26 posted on 05/25/2012 11:04:26 AM PDT by CWSNTEXAS (The Jewish Pope)
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To: cricket

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!


27 posted on 05/25/2012 11:05:38 AM PDT by thanatz
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To: Rio
It's things like this that made me ban all children from my property.

/johnny

28 posted on 05/25/2012 11:11:48 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Rio

“My little Bobby has the cleanest colon on the block!”


29 posted on 05/25/2012 11:13:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: jiggyboy
I swear at first glance I thought your name was “Soapeater”

That made me laugh. :-)
30 posted on 05/25/2012 11:53:20 AM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Rio

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.


31 posted on 05/25/2012 12:41:16 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Deb
Years ago, P&G hung samples of their new lemon dishwashing liquid on door knobs across the country. MANY women drank them.

I remember the promotion but I never heard that aspect of it till now. Dang.

32 posted on 05/25/2012 12:42:10 PM PDT by houeto (FReepathon 2Q! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blueunicorn6
“My little Bobby has the cleanest colon on the block!”

No more "ring around the colon!"

33 posted on 05/25/2012 12:52:18 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Deb

My brother would drink a bottle of lemon juice as if it was water.

I still pucker up thinking about it.


34 posted on 05/25/2012 1:02:09 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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To: Rio

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.


35 posted on 05/25/2012 1:07:05 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: razorback-bert

I bet your brother was wormfree.


36 posted on 05/25/2012 2:07:55 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: rawhide

Thank God I don’t drink heavily any more. Those would look delicious to a drunk person lol.


37 posted on 05/25/2012 5:27:55 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: Rio; Mrs. Frogjerk

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.


38 posted on 09/10/2012 10:43:47 AM PDT by frogjerk (OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)
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