A household has many dangerous traps for children.
Children may be injured due to something they have inhaled or swallowed.
Childproofing is all well and good but the dangers are often found where we least suspect them.
Simple household bleach is often left out to do the laundry, medicine for Grandma’s back pain or antidepressants for a spouse can be left on the kitchen counter or the bathroom sink.
It’s human nature, and that is precisely why the manufacturers need to stand up and do right by the public.
Which is why many household products need to have better safety features and warnings.
Safer tamper proof caps, more unbreakable bottles, and much better differentiation from other products that are safe but have the same colors and bottle shape as the bottles of toxic substances.
Each room of a home has it’s own danger. Medicine cabinets, Kitchen Cabinets, the Laundry room, Garage.
The Bathroom also, as many soaps, oils, perfumes and deodorants are not intended for human consumption.
Some of the more severe injuries to infants and toddlers can come about when colorful laundry detergent pods are swallowed.
Babies and young children may encounter nice smelling E Cigarette fluids.
Carbon Monoxide is odorless and colorless, and may cause unconsciousness and fatal overdosing. Carbon Monoxide exposure may come about many causes, and especially in the case of injuries and accidents to children, from space heaters, or car exhaust.
If your child has been poisoned, with regard to personal injury compensation claims,
keep the evidence. Also take a cell phone photo or video to document the bottle(s) substance(s), or hazard(s).
If pills or medicines, do not discard the bottle(s) or remove any pills that may remain.
If by video, it is suggested that you do not narrate the video, but that you keep your personal notes and observations contemporaneously.
Keep all receipts of purchase and documentation that may accompany any products that you attribute to having contributed to or caused the poisoning.
Give a personal, injury lawyer a call, each poisoning episode is different and heavily fact and circumstance dependent. Either my firm, or another. What matters is that you get the right advice, early.
