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Laundry Pods Archive

27 May 2020

What’s in Your House? Laundry Room and Garage Edition

Emily Antifreeze, Carbon Monoxide, Cleaning Products, Home, Laundry Pods Leave a Comment
A blog series showing rooms of a house with different products highlighted in each.

Welcome to the fifth and final edition of our home safety series. More than 90% of poisonings happen in the home. Keep an eye out for these potential poisons in your laundry room and garage, and make sure you use and store them safely.

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19 February 2019

Poison Myths Busted: Will Children Eat Things that Taste Bad?

Emily Children, E-cigarettes, Hand Sanitizer, Laundry Pods, Medicine, Nicotine, Personal Care Products, Poison Myths Leave a Comment
Black and white photo of a small toddler with lotion spread across his face.

Sometimes, parents of young children will tell our poison specialists, “I don’t think he/she ate that much because it tastes bad!” But, is this true? Let’s dive deeper to thoroughly bust the myth that children won’t eat things that taste bad…or will they?

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17 January 2018

The laundry pod challenge: why are teens doing it?

wpennington Internet Challenges, Laundry Pod Challenge, Laundry Pods, Parents, Pre-Teens, Teens Leave a Comment
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Poison centers in the US started receiving calls about exposures to single load laundry packets, more commonly known as laundry pods,  in 2012. These exposures were most common in kids 5 and under. Since 2015, the number of exposures reported

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