Just don’t pass on car seats to young families they are expensive, and required, but the plastic might be brittle after so many years of UV and besides that design is two years old now and considered as safe as putting your child in a loaded bear trap. Cribs were known to be babykillers after a few years then the next, ‘safe’ design was found to be dangerous a few years later. I couldn’t find that one, but I found the one about Poisons In The House and the one about those neat old refrigerators that latched like a bank vault, and every once in awhile a kid would accidentally suffocate himself in one. There was one PSA that ran during Saturday morning cartoons in the early ’70s that gave my kid brain the idea that what ethnic kids did all day in the city was sit around and eat the lead paint off of windowsills. of Lead Arsenate, which the orchards were hogged down with on a regular basis to kill pests. From the 1890’s until the mid-sixties, An Apple A Day used to give you your U.S.R.D.A.
The litany of things that can happen to kids… Stories emerge from the BeforeTimes about babies burning themselves against the potbellied stove, or even earlier, falling into the fireplace. Posted in Medical Hacks Tagged batteries, coin cell, flameless candle, PSA, safety Post navigation After the break, a Canadian PSA song about not putting things in your mouth. So, please, don’t swallow batteries, or let children put them in their mouths. Should an incident occur, there’s even a hotline to call for assistance. The National Capital Poison Center’s website has an entire page dedicated to battery safety, which is probably worth a read if you deal with batteries and small children on a regular basis.
We know some of our readers also deal with batteries in open trays, which are apparently pretty dangerous for children. The National Capital Poison Center has done some research on this, and found that 14% of batteries swallowed over the past two years came from flameless candles like the ones above. Like burning esophaguses, and even death.
When this happens with bigger cells, usually greater than 20 millimeters (CR2032, CR2025, and CR2016) really bad things happen. Apparently, some kids are accidentally eating lithium coin cell batteries. We get a lot of press releases at Hackaday, but this one was horrific enough that we thought it was worth sharing.
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