Columbus, OH – Parents of young children have even more reason to be concerned about laundry detergent pods: New research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital shows that the pods, already a safety and health risk to young children, can be more harmful than other types of detergent.
Researchers used data from the hospital’s Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Central Ohio Poison Center to examine 62,254 calls to poison control centers about children younger than 6 who were exposed to laundry and dishwasher detergent. Results showed that every day from January 2013 to December 2014, at least one child was hospitalized for exposu