By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 7:15AM GMT 03 March 2010
Children have been personification with the capsules, that enclose antiseptic in dissolvable coatings, and popping them that can outcome in the liquid removing in to their eyes.
This can means critical browns and permanent repairs to prophesy and even blindness if the eye is not cleared out thoroughly.
Warning among climb in childhood poisonings with domicile chemicalsDoctors at the at the Western Eye Hospital, piece of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust have seen a climb in cases where young kids have been squirted in the eye with the detergent.
They pronounced half of all young kids underneath five treated with colour for containing alkali eye injuries by the sanatorium last year had been personification with the capsules.
In a paper published in the British Medical Journal online, clinicians at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, warned that young kids are captivated by the charming and ductile inlet of the capsules.
However, their outdoor wall dissolves when in hit with wet hands or the mouth, releasing harmful, containing alkali contents.
Melanie Corbett, expert eye doctor at the Western Eye Hospital and co-author of the BMJ paper, said: "Parents contingency keep liquid antiseptic capsules out of childrens reach their essence can means irrevocable repairs to the eye.
"If any containing alkali enters your childs eye, you should wash it out immediately, with large quantities of water."
Dr Corbett combined that the Trusts work with the National Poisons Unit at Guys Hospital had resulted in softened jeopardy labelling on antiseptic wrapping but she pronounced some-more indispensable to be finished to lift awareness.
The poisons section advises clinicians on how to provide patients and has seen an enlarge in calls about antiseptic capsules from 192 to 225 over the last year.
