Laundry detergent pods are increasingly contributing to eye injuries among preschoolers, indicates a U.S. study that also gives injury prevention recommendations. The pods are often brightly coloured pouches that resemble candy and contain enough laundry detergent for a single use. There was a total of 1,201 laundry detergent pod-related ocular burns, the researchers said in a letter published online on Thursday in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology. The number of chemical burns associated with laundry detergent pods increased from 12 instances in 2012 to 480 in 2015. The laundry detergent industry has taken steps to try to reduce how attractive pods are to young kids, a researcher says.

Source: CBC News February 02, 2017 16:00 UTC