A vast range of products come with promises that they’ll fight stains, keep colors vibrant, brighten whites, eliminate odors, or be gentle on your skin and the environment. When you’re shopping the detergent aisle, though, there’s no easy way to tell which formulas deliver. Typically, people who go into the hospital after swallowing detergent are out the next day without any issues, but it really depends on how many pods you eat and whether you ingest or inhale them.Our tests of dozens of laundry detergents show that there are real differences from one formula to the next-and that some detergents barely clean better than running a cycle with water alone. "We usually just offer supportive care, so if there's burning in the esophagus we'll give you an IV and an endoscopy or if you are in respiratory distress we'll put you on a CPAP or ventilator until things improve," Anderson says. When it comes to treatment, there's no detergent antidote. If symptoms become severe or you experience prolonged vomiting, wheezing, severe drowsiness, or trouble breathing - call 911 or go to the hospital. "The good thing is that the detergent affects the body fairly quickly, so you'll usually know if something is going to happen within an hour or so," Anderson says. Poison Control will typically advise you to wait and monitor symptoms. "When you call Poison Control, be ready to tell them the exact brand and type of pod, because they need to know the specific ingredients and concentration of them to assess the situation," Anderson says. These include irritation and burning in the mouth and esophagus, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, and drooling in children. Then you should call Poison Control (1-80) if the symptoms are mild or moderate. The very first thing you should do is wash out the mouth and drink water or milk to dilute the detergent, Anderson says, and do not try to induce vomiting. (Note: Anderson did not comment on any specific brand.) They're made by many other brands, such as All and Gain, and there are also generics.
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"What's inside the pod will depend on the type - some have softener or bleach - but most are full of a very alkaline detergent," Anderson tells BuzzFeed News.Īlthough Tide Pods are the most popular, we're talking about any laundry detergent pod here.
So that little packet can do a lot more damage. Unlike regular liquid detergent, which typically just causes mild stomach upset, pods contain a highly concentrated liquid inside. Anderson, pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to find out.įirst things first, what's inside these things? Laundry detergent pods, or single-load laundry packets, are full of various chemicals compounds, such as surfactants, which are great at cleaning clothes but not great for your body. But how does it actually affect the body and what are the health risks? We spoke to Jana L. It should be obvious that the stuff inside laundry detergent pods isn't good for you. But these are no curious children - these are teenagers (and some grown adults) chomping down on the liquid-filled packets. Actually, accidental poisonings in toddlers and young children was such a problem that it led to a change in packaging. Up until then, the majority of calls made to poison control centers related to accidental poisoning from laundry pods were among children under 5, the AAPCC said in a statement. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, centers across the country handled 39 cases of people intentionally ingesting laundry detergent in 2016 among people aged 13 to 19, 53 cases in 2017, and 39 in the first two weeks of 2018 alone, BuzzFeed News previously reported. What began as a satirical article about eating detergent pods in the Onion from 2015 - a harmless internet joke - turned into a dangerous meme that went viral in late 2017.
So many people are eating the pods that Tide and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have had to issue warnings. You'd like to believe nobody over the age of 5 wants to pop a laundry detergent pod in their mouth but, apparently, 2018 is full of surprises.
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