Laundry Pods Caused Poisoning In Kids:Know How Its Candy-Like Design Caused Burns, Vomiting, And Even Death!

Recently, a new study warns both parents and children about the alarming rate of poisoning created by laundry pods. Children, in particular, are the poor victims as the product's candy-like design is very appealing, causing children to play with it, and even consuming it.

The tiny, dual colored laundry pods have generated a 30-fold increase among kids from preschool in terms of chemical eye burns. The detergent packs had its debut on the market in 2012, and since then, it was favored by many users as it is more convenient to use when doing the laundry, as per Dail Mail Online.

Conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the study assessed the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System from 2010 and 2015 in relation to chemical eye burn-related injuries or conjunctivitis with children from ages three to four years old. Result suggests that there are about 1,200 chemical eye burns caused by the detergent pods among the children.

The laundry pods-related injuries started from 12 instances in 2012 and went quickly on an alarming increase of 30-fold to 480 in the year 2015. Such accidents mostly happen when the contents of the detergent pods squirted in either one or both eyes of the holder or when it leaks onto their hands, causing to a burn from consequent from hand-eye contact.

Meanwhile, CNN reported that laundry pods even caused a more severe injury and even fatality as more and more children are enticed to eat the detergent packets. The study shows that increase of phone calls to poison controls centers to 17% due to the children being exposed in the laundry packets. Several life-threatening dilemmas happen which often includes children to have difficulty or even stopped breathing, comatose, vomiting, throat burns or cardiac arrest.

Two children have already died and these, together with other findings, have caused researchers to claim that the laundry pods are more toxic than the other marketed detergents such as laundry powder. Therefore, parents and other adults should help in storing the laundry packets out of sight, locked inside a high cabinet, or supervised closely while it is open.