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Getbig Main Boards => General Topics => Topic started by: Princess L on March 13, 2009, 03:19:47 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_re_us/windshield_fluid_sickness
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Ten children at an Arkansas day-care center drank windshield wiper fluid after the owner served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday. The day-care owner voluntarily surrendered her state license Friday.
Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock.
Only one child remained hospitalized Friday in good condition, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. In moderate cases, it can cause nausea, vomiting, staggering and sleepiness, James said.
The day care also provided the fluid for testing.
The owner bought the windshield wiper fluid with several other items on a recent shopping trip, James told The Associated Press. "This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator," she said.
The day care's owner, Carolyn Bynum, was interviewed Friday by child welfare investigators and gave up her license, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services. Bynum declined to comment to the AP, but Munsell said she accepted "total responsibility" for the incident.
"She was so upset about what had occurred and she was definitely worried some of the children had been injured," Munsell said. "It was just a mistake, she says. She says it was just a horrible mistake."
Bynum's license had allowed her to care for 10 children in her home in Scott, about 15 miles east of Little Rock. Munsell said Bynum had no found complaints or serious compliance issues since receiving the license in 2002.
By surrendering her license, Bynum can no longer care for the children without reapplying. State law requires a license when someone cares for more than five children from more than one family at the same time in their home.
The toxicologist warned that many antifreeze or windshield wiper solutions have bright colors, which can be mistaken for fruit drinks.
"I think the take-home message is not to have these products in the kitchen or where you're doing any kind of food preparation," she said.
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far out how high do you have to be, it just can't be one of those typical moments where the individual in question was on the phone and just being negligent, not looking at what they're doing.. just 'feeling' for the right container in the fridge then going ahead and pouring it
in fact thats the only way i can see this outcome actually being feasible.
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far out how high do you have to be, it just can't be one of those typical moments where the individual in question was on the phone and just being negligent, not looking at what they're doing.. just 'feeling' for the right container in the fridge then going ahead and pouring it
in fact thats the only way i can see this outcome actually being feasible.
I was kind of thinking the same thing, ...but what I can't get past is the container. I mean, when I've bought windshield wiper fluid, or anti-freeze, it's always come in those big jugs or quasi jerry cans. How does one mistake a big industrial jug for a beverage container. I mean, I can understand running a day care or even any sort of a facility where you have to cater for a large number at a time... ya you're going to buy bulk sizes, but don't food items come in containers separate and distinct from automotive products and using different grades of materials? :-\
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I was kind of thinking the same thing, ...but what I can't get past is the container. I mean, when I've bought windshield wiper fluid, or anti-freeze, it's always come in those big jugs or quasi jerry cans. How does one mistake a big industrial jug for a beverage container. I mean, I can understand running a day care or even any sort of a facility where you have to cater for a large number at a time... ya you're going to buy bulk sizes, but don't food items come in containers separate and distinct from automotive products and using different grades of materials? :-\
lol yeah
i think the main problem was that it was stored in the same fridge that food was kept in, definite no-no
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in a word.......sad
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keep the kool aid in the fridge
and the wiper fluid in the garage