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Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs
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| 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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I guess I can see the problem:
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Rio
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:29:13 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Rio
This is the best way to learn a lesson. I’ll bet they only do it once.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:33:56 AM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
To: Rio
My youngest brother recently drank about 1/3 of one of these:
His kids had put it in the fridge and he thought it was grape drink!
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:35:12 AM PDT
by
houeto
(FReepathon 2Q! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Rio
so who stores laundry stuff where kids can get at it - regardless of what it looks like?
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:37:07 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Rio
Reasonable solution is for those households with small children; who cannot be watched; or cannot keep these pods 'high/dry' from children:
. . .buy detergent in the box!
Leave the fool-the-eye detergent; for the 'otherwise or 'does not apply' - consumers.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:37:46 AM PDT
by
cricket
(Calling Marco Rubio; Allen West. . Newt. Because they are NOT afraid.)
To: houeto
Bet it tasted MUY FABULOSO.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:40:34 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: cricket
How dare you suggest parents actually be responsible for their kids, it is racist to think that government shouldn’t be there to watch over everyone.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:41:12 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Rio
Swell! Something very convenient for me and I may lose it because some parents are too stupid to keep this stuff away from kids. Now, I’ll get off my soapbox and concede these things DO look like gum or candy and maybe a different packaging is in order. The ones I use are dye/perfume free and are clear and not tempting at all and I STILL keep them on the shelf above my washer.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:41:48 AM PDT
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: Rio
The same type of parent that left laundry detergent in a bottle in a spot that a child can to it is the same type to leave the pods around....
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:42:40 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Rio
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:44:02 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: Rio
Kids. They won’t eat their peas, but detergent? Nom nom nom...
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:44:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1221 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: houeto
I guess your youngest brother isn’t all that bright either. He opens a bottle of something and ingests it. I grew up with siblings....I learned long ago that doing such and act was always dangerous
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:45:28 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Rio
To: Nifster
I guess your youngest brother isnt all that bright either.Either?
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:50:04 AM PDT
by
houeto
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To: Sopater
Good one.
BTW I swear at first glance I thought your name was “Soapeater”, how’s that for being influenced by the topic, huh.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:51:40 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Rio
When I was a little kid, my older brother and I would follow our dad into the bathroom in the morning and watch him shave and go through his morning routine, which he completed by getting a solo cup and wrinsing his mouth. I was insanely jealous of my older brother because he could reach the solo-cup dispenser and the sink and mimic dad while I could not.
One night, wanting to show that I was fully capable, I retrieved a a solo cup from the trash, then dipped it into a plastic bucket of "water" my mom had sitting in the bath tub. My plan was to walk down the steps swigging from my solo cup showing I was a big guy too. Anyways, the "water" in the tub was a dilute Clorox mixture in which my mom was soaking my little sister's (cloth) diapers.
One good swig of Clorox/water and diaper detritus pretty much fixed me. Never tried it again.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Flash Bazbeaux
"It was......soap...poisoning."
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: GraceG
I hear Julia has to use rocks by the sea shore.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:52:41 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: null and void
My mother always threatened to wash my mouth out with soap.
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posted on
05/25/2012 10:58:18 AM PDT
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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