A new study says more kids are being injured after eating 'laundry pods.'
Candy or laundry pods? Hard to tell which is which 'eh. That's why kids are being poisoned by them More @ 6:30 @WKBW pic.twitter.com/cDUArXzAx7
— Desiree Wiley (@DesireeWiley) April 25, 2016
According to the study published in Pediatrics, 62,254 calls were made to poison control centers after children were exposed to laundry detergent packets between 2013-14.
Doctors say every 45 mins a child eats one of these pods that's up 17% increase in 2 years @WKBW pic.twitter.com/EIHKtX8Sm1
— Desiree Wiley (@DesireeWiley) April 25, 2016
That's a call every 45 minutes accounting for a 17-percent increase in that two-year span.
According to the study, at least one child a day in the U.S. was admitted to the hospital due to laundry pods.
Doctors from the Nationwide Children's Hospital said child could experience a coma, fluid build-up in the lungs and a loss of breathing.
Doctors say this could make a child slip into a coma, get fluid in their lungs & stop breathing @WKBW pic.twitter.com/tGn2pkWEa5
— Desiree Wiley (@DesireeWiley) April 25, 2016
Doctors note two children under the age of three have died after ingesting the pods.
Companies that make these pods have taken steps to make them safer in recent years, including making the outside taste bitter, and making containers harder to open.
Researchers suggest that parents who have young kids at home use traditional laundry detergent, which they say is less toxic than the pods. You should also keep all detergent out of the reach of children.
