For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays

For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays.
The bevy of injuries to green children caused by exposure to household cleaning products have decreased almost by half since 1990, but awkwardly 12000 children under the age of 6 are still being treated in US difficulty rooms every year for these types of accidental poisonings, a new study finds. Bleach was the cleaning artifact most commonly associated with injury (37,1 percent), and the most common type of storage container labyrinthine 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 writing-room period, spray bottle injury rates remained constant, the researchers reported.

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

McKenzie added that young kids are often attracted to a cleaning product's cute label and colorful liquid, and may mistake it for juice or vitamin water. "If you seem at a lot of household cleaners in bottles these days, it's actually pretty easy to bad move 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 childlike child, an abrasive cleanser may look take a shine to a container of Parmesan cheese.

Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined national data on unskilfully 267000 children aged 5 and under who were treated in emergency rooms after injuries with household cleaning products between 1990 and 2006. During this measure 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 point of Pediatrics.

To prevent accidental injuries from household products, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends storing evil substances in locked cabinets and out of discern and reach of children, buying products with child-resistant packaging, keeping products in their character 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 dear they are to treat," said Dr Robert Geller, medical guide 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".