Feeding gel candy to a 2-year-old

"Kathy" wrote in message
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Jeff Utz wrote:

"Mark Probert" wrote in message
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Mark wrote:

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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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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.

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
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"Roger Schlafly" wrote in message
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"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

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."

"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.