Laundry pods may be convenient, but they come at a price.
A study published in Pediatrics on Monday showed that more children were being poisoned by laundry detergent packets every year. The number of calls to U.S. poison control centers jumped 17 percent between 2013 and 2014.
“We found that the majority of poisonings were due to exposure to laundry detergent packets and unfortunately it was precisely those products that were causing the greatest toxicity,” Dr. Gary Smith told CBS News.
Smith, a director at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, was the lead researcher in the study.
The study analyzed more than 62,000 calls made to U.S. poison control centers after children under 6 were exposed to laundry or dishwasher detergent.
Laundry detergent packets. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
