For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays

For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays.
The loads of injuries to sophomoric children caused by exposure to household cleaning products have decreased almost by half since 1990, but clumsily 12000 children under the age of 6 are still being treated in US predicament rooms every year for these types of accidental poisonings, a new study finds. Bleach was the cleaning offshoot most commonly associated with injury (37,1 percent), and the most common type of storage container confusing was a spray bottle (40,1 percent). In fact, although rates of injuries from bottles with caps and other types of containers decreased during the reading period, spray bottle injury rates remained constant, the researchers reported.

So "Many household products are sold in spread bottles these days, because for cleaning purposes they're honestly easy to use," said study designer Lara B McKenzie, a principal investigator at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy. "But drizzle bottles don't generally come with child-resistant closures, so it's absolutely easy for a child to just squeeze the trigger".

McKenzie added that young kids are often attracted to a cleaning product's euphonious label and colorful liquid, and may mistake it for juice or vitamin water. "If you gaze at a lot of household cleaners in bottles these days, it's actually pretty easy to bloomer them for sports drinks if you can't read the labels," added McKenzie, who is also assistant professor of pediatrics at Ohio State University. Similarly, to a progeny child, an abrasive cleanser may look appreciate a container of Parmesan cheese.

Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined national data on pitilessly 267000 children aged 5 and under who were treated in emergency rooms after injuries with household cleaning products between 1990 and 2006. During this epoch period, 72 percent of the injuries occurred in children between the ages of 1 and 3 years. The findings were published online Aug 2, 2010 and will appear in the September engraving subject of Pediatrics.

To prevent accidental injuries from household products, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends storing mortal substances in locked cabinets and out of espy and reach of children, buying products with child-resistant packaging, keeping products in their imaginative containers, and properly disposing of leftover or unused products. "This study just confirms how often these accidents still happen, how disruptive they can be to health, and how costly they are to treat," said Dr Robert Geller, medical head of the Georgia Poison Control Center in Atlanta. "If you consider that the average pinch room visit costs at least $1000, you're looking at almost $12 million a year in health-care costs," he explained.