Laundry detergents causing mass poisoning of American children – stop buying toxic chemicals
by: Jennifer Lea Reynolds
NaturalNews.com
Friday, February 05, 2016
The convenient single-use laundry packets that people toss in their clothes washer are posing serious health risks to young children who tend to mistake the colorful, clear pouches–commonly referred to as “pods” as popularized by the Tides Pods brand–as candy or toys.
“Laundry detergent pods are small, colorful, and may look like candy or juice to a young child,” said Marcel J. Casavant, MD, chief of toxicology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and medical director of the Central Ohio Poison Center. “It can take just a few seconds for children to grab them, break them open, and swallow the toxic chemicals they contain, or get the chemicals in their eyes.”
U.S. poison control centers kept busy as children mistake pods for candy
The matter is made worse because young children typically use their mouth as a way to explore the world around them. For these reasons, the colorful packets have unfortunately been keeping U.S. poison control centers busy; the Nationwide Children’s Hospital says that from 2012 through 2013, some 17,230 reports of children under the age of six who swallowed, inhaled or were otherwise exposed to the chemicals in the pouches were reported.
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