While a recent poll revealed that more Israelis do their own Pesach cleaning than hiring a cleaner, more than a third of parents admit to storing poisonous cleaning materials in unsafe places.Beterem, the National Center for Child Safety and Health, which urges special care during housecleaning before Pesach, conducted the survey.
The number of accidental poisonings and babies drowning in pails of water is 90 percent higher during the two weeks before Yom Tov than the rest of the year. The center found that those six years old and younger are at greatest risk.
In 2006, 285 children were injured in home accidents during the week before Pesach, down from the 313 hurt in the week before the holiday in 2005.
The most dangerous chemicals are alkaline oven cleaners that work without heating. They contain caustic soda, causing serious burns on the skin when touched and to the mouth, throat, esophagus and stomach when swallowed.
Beterem said that highly concentrated cleaning products with caustic acid sold here are not labeled or sealed properly in order to protect children. They advise parents to immediately store the chemicals after using them, out of reach from the hands of children.
(Source: IT)
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WATCH OUT LADDIES IT IS VERY DANGRUS I AM A MEMBER IN HATZALAH O MY GOD WHAT TYPE OF CALLS THERE ARE BEFORE YOM TOV AND THE MEN WATCH OUT WHEN YO KASHER THE SINK AND OTHER PLACES IN THE KITCHEN YOU DONT WONT TO SPEND YOM TOV IN THE E’R
VENISHMARTAM MEOID LENAFSHOSACHEM.!!!
Big chidush! It’s like saying “drowning accidents higher during swimming season”!
bubby:
if your a hatzalah member then your a man, so why is your username bubby?
bubby – another question: Why are you always yelling??? All “caps” means yelling in computer lingo.
Bubby is yiddish for Bubba. He’s a redneck.
good quastion yitzyr & mdlevine but still watch out playing with fire or not
putting away the detergent is very harmfull
all of you have a happy yom tov!
bubby – thank you — u2
bad answer bubby!
yitzyr – Hatzaloh has women emts in Washington Heights and Staten Island.
To everyone else, Leave Bubby alone, She’s right. She’s just saying to be extra careful since there are so many cleaning supplies out because everyone it busy kashering and cleaning.
yitz – did you really expect a straight answer???