Gel laundry capsule poisonings

[StoneHappyMonday]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24052303

Free cupboard-catches are to be given to families in the Glasgow area with a three or four-month-old child in an effort to curb liquitab poisonings.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is worried about a continuing rise in the number of children being harmed after biting the brightly coloured capsules.

Imagine the stink (pun intentional) if this was due to some brightly coloured attractive to children killer (insert chosen drug of choice here).

1400 hospitalizations. 9 serious, some involving reconstructive surgery on voice boxes and windpipes.

The manufacturers of gel capsules have now agreed to change their packaging but it will take some time for all brands to comply.

Again, imagine if 'drug pushers' were the ones saying they will take time to comply.

Health visitors from Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board will now hand out 16,000 cupboard catches.

Community safety development officer for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Carlene McAvoy, said: "For us the most important part of the campaign is actually the leaflet which is being handed out.

"There's a cupboard catch for people to put on their cupboards if they want to. These are child resistant, they're not child-proof. The main thing is to be aware of the issue.

Unfortunately it does seem a lack of basic intelligence starts from an early age in Glaswegians."

 

[curious_24]

Methinks the final quote may have been appended...

 

[Bodda]

1400 hospitalizations. 9 serious, some involving reconstructive surgery on voice boxes and windpipes

wtf are they putting in this stuff to do that?
My God that's really bad, I feel for them poor kids

 

[Ben So Furry]

I feel for the kids too. Poor things have parents that lack common sense and the care required to keep their kids out of harms way.

Everyone keeps all the nasty chemicals under the sink but hey, how about this: Move them out of reach until said child is old enough to know better? Failing that how about keeping an eye on your child when he/she is heading for the cupboards ffs.

It pisses me off when things like this happen which could have been so easily avoided by common sense and proper parenting.

 

[parttime crackhead]

Anything for a dunt.

 

[BecomingJulie]

And we're supposed to wash our clothes in that stuff, and then wear them next to our skin?

I knew there was a reason why I stuck with powder .....

 

[desertshore]

I thinks that the tabs causing chemical burns were actually dishwasher tabs. Anyway, you're supposed to wash off all detergent residues before wearing the clothes

 

[BecomingJulie]

I thinks that the tabs causing chemical burns were actually dishwasher tabs.

Oh, so we just wash plates in it and eat off them. Well, that's alright then.

 

[ponch]

And we're supposed to wash our clothes in that stuff, and then wear them next to our skin?

I knew there was a reason why I stuck with powder .....

I think powder would be just as bad to be honest, its just in a different state. I guess the only advantage is kids probably arent going to be that interested in a boring white powder when there are brightly coloured mouth sized capsules on the go

 

[parttime crackhead]

Oh, so we just wash plates in it and eat off them. Well, that's alright then.

It is alright then. It's perfectly safe to do that. It's not perfectly safe for some stupid wee kid to eat the things tho.

I'm fairly sure scranning a cupful of washing powder would have similar effects.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Washing powder shit is made of some potent chems PT, that's why it's always "new and improved". Theyre always trying to take shit out of it and put cleaner shit in. I'd go nowhere near saying any of it is perfectly safe.