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Originally Posted by Skybird
German article:I say to this just this: one of the young daughters of a good girlfriend of mine broke such a lightbulb during playing in early summer. At that time I just had told the mother of the risks involved, but she did not believe it. The breaking lightbulb was not noticed by the parents immediately. Since then the kid is in doctor'S treatement, with breathing problems, and a form of blood intoxication that is medically proven, they tried to detox her repeaytedly, with smaller and smaller remains showing up in her blood and liver scans.
The danger obviously is not just a theoretic but a very real one. Now imagine a pregnant mother inhaling quicksilver gas (its a gas, due to the heating of the light bulb), and what that would mean for the embryo or fetus.
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From the sounds of things it sounds like the parents noticed the kid having problems fairly soon after it happened so it wasn't fatal. This is truly sad and made worse by one that is already sick and I do feel sorry for her being a victim of a real accident.
What I can't tolerate is parents that don't watch their children; because of their lazyness new safer products of all kinds have to be created that are safe to eat. I feel no pity for kids that have brain damage from eating lead paint, what the ******* are you doing eating paint in the first place (I know the natural tendency though for a child to put anything in its mouth) and where were the parents that should have been there to stop them from doing such a blantanly stupid thing in the first place?
It angers me to no end that cleaning products/materials are constantly having to be changed to something less hazardous; which usually works only half as well as "the old stuff". Because some parent who thinks the TV will raise their children for them decides to drink a bottle of lime cleaner (or any other cleaning agent), and gets sick and possibly dies (I'm not callous to the death of the infant, but the complete lack of any supervison by the parents was the cause of the incident), then sues the company for 50 million dollars and forces them to change their product to something that is well sub standard to what it already was.
There is a plethora of items in a house that can easily kill a child (or an adult for that matter), as long as they are treated properly with care and respect the danger is minimal. Accidents do happen (like what happened to your friend) and are sadly a statistical probability that will eventualy happen to someone regardless of age. When I was a little girl I broke a glass thermometer in my mouth once, it was one of the common ones filled with Mercury. My mom who was there the whole time looked up from her watch every few seconds at me and when she did had me spit it out instantly before any Mercury came oozing out. After going to the ER (just to be safe) aside from some glass that was still in my mouth (which was a major nuisance, mom told me not to swallow and keep my mouth open as much as possible until we saw the doctor) I was fine. Carpet had a stain on it when we got back home but was an acceptable casuality in lieu of what happened. Since my mom was there watching over me she did what parents are supposed to do - pay attention and attend to their children!