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I read this earlier.
That center should have had the bleach water labeled! Even so, it really doesn't add up unless they keep drinking water in the same type of jug as bleach water. I don't know. Here, we have to make it everyday and I've only seen it in spray bottles. -
Yeah I read that and couldn't believe it!! Talk about scary!Comment
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I'm super retentive about chemical safety, but in my shop I have multiple things that mixed could cause dangerous situations. The only thing I can think of is someone mixing/ measuring cleaners in the same containers that are used for drinking, which is a huge NO from a safety point of view.Comment
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I saw that too - crazy!
On the other hand, the headline sensationalized it way over the top IMO. Granted, it never should've happened, but there's bleach in swimming pool water and you never hear about swimmers drinking bleach at a pool...Comment
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Yeah, this makes it sound like they were drinking large amounts of bleach. If none of the adults smelled or tasted it before or while they were drinking it then I'm guessing it was an extremely small amount. I can smell the bleach in my spray bottle and it's hardly any bleach at all.
My niece had bleach sprayed in straight in her eyes when she was a toddler and poison control wasn't worried at all... just needed to flush it as best as we could.Comment
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I am so OCD when it comes to things not in original containers. (Does that make sense?)
If you place something in another container, you IMMEDIATELY mark it as such. I don't care what it is.
I took one of my dcbs home one day. While Mom and I were standing in the garage talking, he ran into the house. All of a sudden we heard him scream. Mom had been painting and had borrowed some paint thinner from a neighbor. They had put it into a Pepsi can. He saw the can and drank it in a hurry so he didn't get caught. I rushed them to the ER and he spent two days in the hospital.
My sil's sister put clear lamp oil in a water bottle and mixed it up with a regular water bottle. She gave it to her then 3 yr. When the child wouldn't drink it and kept crying for water, she told her to knock it off and drink the water as that was all she had. When the child started vomiting in the bank, the mom realized what she had given her. I'm surprised that no one in the bank called CPS on her.Comment
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THIS is pretty crazy! Never mix n match! I still am confused to how you can mix bleach with water, and how the 2 adults didn't smell it before they drank it. And how the bleach got mixed?
On a "bad mommy" note:
My kid ate a glade plug in at nap once, when he was 2 1/2. He had been asleep only 30 minutes! I always kept his door closed because that's how he liked to sleep. I didn't think much of it as it'd never been a problem with child # 1 or even him til this day.
The darn thing was BEHIND the dresser, and he somehow wiggled the thing out of the outlet, took it apart and decided it was food.... and, he also took down a lamp. He not only drank the glade plug in (Lavender), he also took apart and showed me HOW to put together the lamp! (of course he was boasting after I asked him if he knew how to put it back the way it was. So I am guessing he'd done it before and I never caught this kid!)
Mind you, he got caught because I became suspicious when I smelled an intense smell of lavender coming from his room (he also spilled some on the carpet) and thought "Wow, that thing is STRONG" Yeah, sure,
So I actually was going to open windows for him, and that's how he got caught.:: As far as the lamp, I'm just glad we didn't leave it plugged in during the day due to the daycare kids went in/out of the room when the gate was down.
Two things I learned from this incident, nah, make it 3:
1. Trust ye not a boy at nap with anything plugged in for they will eat it or take it apart
2. Poop, after a glade-plug-in feast, smells like lavender for up to 2 weeks
3. My son knows how to take apart and put together a lamp and I will one day use that to my advantage
ETA: No ill effects. He didn't even vomit. PC said that they weren't worried because it was all organic and that unless it was a whole plug in (which it couldn't have been, he spilled some) then not to worry. The only s/e was the poop didn't smell as bad
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I can't see how the adults couldn't smell it. Using the standard bleach ratio ... it chokes me out.Comment
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Holy cow! I think the worst thing any of my kids have ever ingested was hydrogen peroxide. It causes vomiting for a few hours but isn't toxic. It was in the bathroom closet but one of my monkies climbed up I guess! In pretty paranoid about that stuff.
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