A child safety lock could be the ideal way for parents to keep dangerous chemicals kept in spray bottles out of harm’s way, especially when they hear the results of a recent study.
Published in the journal Pediatrics, research found that 40 per cent of accidents involving household cleaning products that resulted in a child going to hospital were caused by products kept in nozzled bottles.
Study author Lara McKenzie, from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, explained many of these containers are not toddler proof because they do not include a child safety lock.
Similarly, paediatrician Carl Baum of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital said: “People don’t realise that the handle can be activated by a small child. Kids will put their mouths on the nozzle and drink it in.”
This news comes after Dr B Perera told readers of the Island Online not to place chairs, beds and cribs next to windows, as a child can easily fall out of them.
