Some cleanning chemicals should be put away from children

Household spray cleaners pose the greatest danger to poisoning toddlers. A
The researchers found that more than 40 percent came from young children's access to cleaners in spray bottles. Study author Dr. Lara McKenzie said there was also some good news. "What we found when we looked at injuries from household products that were treated in emergency departments, was a 46% decrease in these injuries over a 17 year study period, so that's the good news. The bad news is that we still saw more than 267,000 cases over that same time period. So we still have some room to improve."
McKenzie says young kids are often attracted to the colorful liquids and labels of cleaning products. She says the study doesn't mean that people should stop using cleaning products. But instead, be careful and take the necessary precautions to keep them out of reach.
"Keep poisonous substance locked and to buy child resistant packaging when possible and also keep products in their original containers.," said McKenzie.
The number one product associated with injuries is bleach. Bleach is corrosive, but exposure to bleach did not increase a child's chances of hospitalization. However, the combination of chlorine bleach and ammonia is very dangerous, because it produces a fatal gas.
17 year study out of Nationwide Children's Hospital investigated the number of household cleaning-related product injuries to young children.

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