The "June 1st" International Children’s Day is approaching, and the "pet baby army" is ready to carefully select gifts for children. Offline physical shopping malls and online shopping platforms are also warming up for the promotion of Children’s Day.
Children’s toys are constantly innovating. Their bright colors, novel functions and dazzling visual experience fascinate children, but the safety of some toys is also worrying.
Since 2008, China’s relevant departments have recalled 1189 children’s products, accounting for 49.6% of the total number of recalls of consumer goods, involving nearly 6 million pieces.
In recent years, there are not a few cases that children are poisoned by eating and their development is damaged due to substandard toys. Quality supervision departments and law enforcement departments in many places in China are also increasing the sampling inspection of children’s toys, but tragedies still occur from time to time.
So, which toys will "hurt the baby"? What harm will they bring to children? On the eve of Children’s Day, the reporter of Science and Technology Daily sent you a list of "Wounded Baby" toys, so that you can buy gifts for your children without stepping on thunder.
Crystal mud: or borax with high fatality rate.
Crystal mud is a kind of toy deeply loved by children. This kind of muddy toys are colorful, soft to the touch, easy to stick to the skin, can be kneaded into various shapes, and can also be used to blow bubbles and draw pictures.
However, they are not really mud, but are made of many chemicals. Some "mud" may contain a substance that is harmful to human health — — Borax.
"Borax has a high mortality rate and can accumulate in the body." Yi Zhu, an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, said that the scientific name of borax is sodium tetraborate, and the adult poisoning dose is 1 to 3 grams, and the adult lethal dose is 15 grams. If children eat borax by mistake, the possibility of death is extremely high.
Yi Zhu said that after being ingested by human body, borax can react with gastric acid to produce boric acid, or it may lead to acute poisoning, usually manifested as vomiting and diarrhea. Borax entering the human body can be absorbed quickly, but the discharge speed is slow.
Yi Zhu said that borax is more harmful to human body because it will accumulate in human body, interfere with the action of digestive tract enzymes, cause loss of appetite, indigestion, inhibit the absorption of various nutrients, and lead to weight loss.
It should be noted that when children play with crystal mud containing borax, borax will be absorbed by the human body if their skin is damaged or their hands touch their mouths during this period. In addition, some children playing with this toy may cause skin allergies.
Water pistol: It is a simulation gun, which can pierce through cartons.
Water-bomb gun is a toy gun that can fire water-bombs. Water bomb (also known as water-absorbing bomb) is a kind of millet-sized particle, which will become pea-sized beads after being soaked in water. Most water cannons have a range of about 15 meters, and the longest range can reach 20 meters.
In recent years, water pistol has become a toy in online celebrity, which is deeply loved by children. But hidden dangers also follow. Due to the lack of understanding of the power of water pistol, teenagers "shoot" with water pistol at will while playing, resulting in injuries to others’ eyes or other parts of the body from time to time. Previously, many departments had done water gun shooting tests. The test shows that the power of the water pistol is not small, and it can penetrate the carton. If it is shot at the fragile parts of the child (such as eyes and chest), it will certainly cause some harm and even irreparable consequences.
In this regard, the Defective Product Management Center of the State Administration of Market Supervision issued the "Consumer Warning on Water-Absorbing Soft Gun" as early as 2015. After experimental analysis, the water bomb does not meet the safety standards of toys, and if it is swallowed into the respiratory tract by mistake, it will cause suffocation. Moreover, the kinetic energy of some water cannons has exceeded the standard limit, which will cause harm after hitting people.
In addition, many experts said that the appearance and color of water-jet guns are similar to those of domestic and foreign standard guns such as type 56 assault rifle and M4 carbine, which meet the Certification Standard for Simulation Guns and should be cleaned up and rectified in time.
In 2020, at the video deployment meeting of the national special campaign to crack down on the illegal crimes of online sales of simulation guns, the Ministry of Public Security asked relevant local departments to strengthen the clean-up and rectification of online sales of simulation guns, promptly remove illegal commodities such as toy guns and water cannons that exceeded the standard, investigate and deal with businesses selling simulation guns according to law, punish illegal websites and platforms, and clean up relevant illegal information.
But to this day, the reporter found in an online shopping platform in China that there are still unscrupulous merchants selling water cannons under the guise of "water bow single wooden warehouse".
Buckyball: Eating more than two pills by mistake can cause intestinal perforation.
Buckyball, with a diameter of about 5 mm and magnetic force, can spell out various shapes and is called "educational toy" by merchants. In just a few years, a small ball quickly became popular in children’s circles, occupying the top position in the list of educational toys for children.
Indeed, this kind of small ball with magnetic force can be played at will, and its shape can be changed. Parents and children can use their imaginations to put it together. However, because buckyball is small in diameter and easy to disassemble, it is easy for children to swallow it by mistake when playing, resulting in intestinal perforation. Such incidents have occurred continuously in recent years, and the safety of this toy has been questioned.
Attending surgeon Wang Wenjing, a child in tongji hospital, introduced that buckyball is made of high-intensity magnetized materials, and its sphere has strong magnetic force, so the magnetic balls swallowed by children in turn will move downwards with the peristalsis of the small intestine. Because the human intestine is soft, long and narrow, and curved, if a magnetic ball "touches" another magnetic ball separated from itself by a wall (intestinal wall), under the strong magnetic force, they will attract each other and immediately pinch the double-layer intestine. At this point, the two magnetic balls stop moving, and the intestine pressed by them will gradually become ischemic, necrotic and finally perforated. If there are magnetic beads in other parts of the intestine, it will attract and pinch the intestine again in turn, and finally the magnetic beads will form a chain bead shape, and the squeezed intestine will fold each other to form intestinal obstruction. Magnetic beads are different from ordinary foreign bodies. If you swallow more than two beads by mistake in turn, the above situation will occur, and 100% will lead to intestinal perforation.
Wang Wenjing also reminded that besides buckyball, infants and young children are easy to swallow some smaller toys and parts by mistake, and in most cases, children will not take the initiative to tell their parents about it. Moreover, generally, in the early stage of eating by mistake, children have no symptoms, and symptoms such as retching, increased saliva and foaming will only appear after a few hours or days. If parents do not pay attention, it will lead to serious consequences. If children swallow buckyball by mistake, they can be diagnosed by taking an abdominal X-ray, so parents should see a doctor immediately if they find any abnormality, so as not to delay the illness and lead to serious consequences.
Walkers: Early use may cause leg bone deformation.
Is the walker also a "pit baby"? You heard me right.
Many parents questioned: the walker has been popular for decades, and I used it as a child. It is an "essential" "artifact" for babies to walk. Where is the "pit"?
Although there is the word "toddler" in the name of the walker, it can’t actually achieve the purpose of toddler. Experts say that when a baby is a toddler, only through his own active activities can he master the ability to balance his body. If the baby relies on a walker, he will lose the opportunity to master the balance, which is not conducive to learning to walk. The results also show that children who use walkers generally have lower scores in intelligence development tests than children who have never used walkers.
In this regard, Liang Shuyi, director of the Rehabilitation Medicine Center of Xiamen Children’s Hospital, once said that the walker will reduce the crawling time, leading to the lack of deep touch and proprioception of the baby, which can lead to sensory integration disorder and ADHD. Moreover, the baby’s center of gravity is pulled up too fast in the development process, from sitting position to standing position, which may lead to O-leg, varus or eversion.
When using the walker, the baby often makes the reflex action of "pedaling", which is a voluntary movement that is not dominated by the brain. Not only does it not improve walking faster, but it may lead to "pointed feet". In addition, because the baby’s trunk muscle strength is insufficient, he often walks on the small table of the walker, which can also cause his head to tilt and his body to lean forward too much.
As early as 2011, the former Ministry of Health issued the Technical Guide for Children’s Fall Intervention, which suggested "Don’t use baby walker". The danger of a walker is far more than that. Many foreign studies have pointed out that a walker will not only help toddlers, but will delay the time for babies to learn to walk by 2 to 3 weeks.
Some medical experts also pointed out that premature use of the walker will cause the baby’s gait instability and even affect the development of the spine.
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