Citation

Horgan N, McLoone E, Lannigan B, Flitcroft I. Lancet 2005; 366(9485): 547-548.

Affiliation

Department of Ophthalmology, Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67095-X

PMID

16099288

Abstract

Liquid detergent tablets pose a new household risk to children, state the authors of a Correspondence letter. Over a 6-month period, Noel Horgan and colleagues treated six children with alkali eye injury caused by a liquid detergent tablet. The children had squeezed a tablet causing it to burst and spray detergent over their eyes. They propose a more obvious warning label, and modifying the packaging to make it child proof.