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Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old
"Kathy" wrote in message ... Jeff Utz wrote: "Mark Probert" wrote in message et... Mark wrote: (...) When my kids were small, I had a plastic tube which was approximately the diameter of a 3 year old's trachea. We went around the house looking for things that would slide down it. I have a good subsitiute for one of those tubes: the core of a roll of toilet paper. Jeff A cardboard toilet paper roll is bigger than an adult's trachea, let alone a young child's. Correct. But few things that can slip through a toilet paper core can also get stuck in a child's respiratory tree. And something does not have to slip into trachea to cause respiratory distress. Jeff Kathy |
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Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old
Kathy wrote:
Jeff Utz wrote: "Mark Probert" wrote in message .net... Mark wrote: (...) When my kids were small, I had a plastic tube which was approximately the diameter of a 3 year old's trachea. We went around the house looking for things that would slide down it. I have a good subsitiute for one of those tubes: the core of a roll of toilet paper. Jeff A cardboard toilet paper roll is bigger than an adult's trachea, let alone a young child's. it makes a better safety standard, as it provides a larger margin for error and how kids seem to get around everything. |
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Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:21:09 GMT, "LSU Grad of '89"
Mark, give some of us parnets the benefit of the doubt. I did not know that these foreign gel candies WERE NOT GELATIN.....I heard about the damn things on an Oprah I had recorded. I am a FT workign mom - an engineer (nevertheless a thinking individual) - and Yes, they should be called Mr. Happy's Trachea Plugs - that's more warning than those Chinese packages give. If you don't know it's not gelatin and you don't read the package - and who does when both parents are trying to keep thier jobs by working OT and the 2 yo is frustrated and falling apart by the time you get dinner ready ? If you're both working OT, why do you think you have time to raise children? They need to completely ban these things, but I saw some in Honolulu just last week. Also, be aware that baby oil can be aspirated, and has killed at least one child this way. Sad, but one child dying of anything preventable with proper warning to parents - one child dying is too many.... L. "Mark" wrote in message . com... "Roger Schlafly" wrote in message .net... "Jeff Utz" wrote Especially when the make of the candy should know that should a child die from it, the maker will be sued. So tell the candymakers to quit using peanuts. No, tell parents to be aware of choking hazards. I know it goes against the sensibilities of people like you and JG, but *someone* has to educate parents about choking hazards. Not everyone is as smart and completely knowledgable on all aspects of child rearing as you'd like to think. I think the culpability should be equally applied between the manufacturer and the parents in this case. The maker didn't call these things "Mr. Happy's Trachea Plugs", but they might as well have. The parents, however, should have had the sense not to feed their toddler a piece of candy like that. Mark, MD |
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Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old
Roger Schlafly wrote:
A California judge thinks that a candy maker should pay $50M to parents who fed gel candy to a toddler: Try again. If you had read the article, you would have noted it said that a California judge ordered a DEFAULT JUDGMENT against the (Taiwanese) manufacturer for not having anyone show up to defend the case. I suspect that they would have to go to Taiwan to enforce the order, and a court there might not be so likely to do so. Unless the company has U.S. assets it doesn't matter how many judgments they get, or anyone gets. -- Paul Robinson "Above all else... We shall go on..." "...And continue!" "If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." |
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Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old
"Paul Robinson" wrote in
A California judge thinks that a candy maker should pay $50M to parents who fed gel candy to a toddler: Try again. If you had read the article, you would have noted it said that a California judge ordered a DEFAULT JUDGMENT against the (Taiwanese) manufacturer for not having anyone show up to defend the case. Yes, I read the article, and my statement was correct. The judge set the damages as $50M, in his opinion. |
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