Text | Shi Mengyan
Editor|Shi Mengyan
Introduction:
As the saying goes: it is their nature for children to love to play, of course, in the face of these days are not afraid of the "bear paper", parents also said that they have a headache.
Since the safety awareness of children is not high enough, it is inevitable that some stumbling will be made when it is time to play.
In 20 minutes, the boy's eyes were "melted", and parents must be highly vigilant in the face of this thing that every household has, and it is something that everyone can see everywhere!!!
What caused the eyeballs to "melt" in just 20 minutes? How exactly does it "kill invisible"?
First, the eyes "melt"
A doctor in Shanghai received an 8-year-old child who was blind in his left eye, according to the victim's mother, Ms. Li.
The boy's name is Coco, and because Coco's performance in school is too good, he is at the top of every class exam, and is loved by teachers and children at school.
On the day of the test results, Coco's results once again made Coco's mother Ms. Li feel gratified, and in order to celebrate Coco's good results in this exam, she decided to buy some snacks as a reward.
So, she took Coco to a large local supermarket and bought cute snacks. Back home, Coco sat on the sofa, eating snacks and watching TV, everything was peaceful and quiet, so Ms. Li went to the kitchen and began to busy cooking today's dinner.
About 15 minutes later, she heard Coco's screams coming from the living room, and she couldn't care about what was cooking in the kitchen, and hurried out of the kitchen to see what was happening outside.
The scene in front of her couldn't help but surprise Ms. Li, and she saw Coco covering her eyes with her hands, crying and talking about pain while rolling on the ground, a deformed mineral water bottle on the floor, and unknown liquids everywhere on the ground.
Ms. Li didn't think much about it, so she hurriedly took Coco downstairs in the elevator, and took a taxi to the nearest hospital to them, and it took about 20 minutes from home to the nearest hospital, but what Ms. Li didn't expect was that in this short 20 minutes, it was still too late for Coco.
When Coco was sent to the hospital, the doctor who was in the emergency department was also startled by this scene, but then he came back to his senses and immediately gave first aid to Coco, and after the examination, but during the process, the doctor's face became more and more serious.
Looking at Ms. Li's anxious mood, the doctor still told Ms. Li very seriously about the current condition of Ms. Li: "Your child's eyes have been corroded at present, there is no way to save it in this case, and the child's vision may not be ideal in the future."
Ms. Li, who heard these words, suddenly felt that her eyes were dark, and she collapsed, but fortunately, the doctor next to her quickly helped Ms. Li to prevent him from collapsing to the ground, but after hearing the news, she still couldn't accept this fact, and then broke down and cried.
Her child is only 8 years old, will she face such a tragedy? How did she accept this for a while, what would the future be like in the face of Coco? For a while, she didn't know how to face her child, and seeing Ms. Li like this, the doctor didn't know how to comfort her.
After further examination by doctors, it was determined that Coco's eyes were corroded by alkaline liquid.
Second, the culprit
According to Xiao Ke's own account, he found a small bag inside the bag after eating snacks. Curious, he took it out, at first he just put it under his nose and sniffed it, then he opened the small bag.
Poured the white powder inside into the mineral water bottle next to it, and then I heard a bang, I don't know what got into my eyes, and then my left eye couldn't open in pain.
Ms. Li said: As a mother, she now regrets that her ignorance and negligence led to such a tragedy, she only knew that desiccant cannot be eaten, and did not know that desiccant has such a great harm and caused such serious consequences.
After testing, the doctor determined that this was an explosion caused by a mixture of desiccant and drink, which got into the eyes.
Hearing this, Ms. Li suddenly thought that when she came out with her child, she saw the liquid on the floor in the living room, and Coco's eyes were not related to the liquid, at this time, Ms. Li called the family to clean up the liquid on the ground and take it to the hospital.
After the doctor's test, it was confirmed that this thing was indeed true, and Ms. Li, the "culprit" who caused her child's blindness to get the answer, could not accept this fact for a while, so she kept muttering to her in a low voice: "All blame me, if only it was me who was injured, blame me for me..."
So what exactly is the culprit that caused this 8-year-old boy to go blind?
In the end, the doctor's judgment was that it was burned by "desiccant".
Food desiccant, which is something very common in our daily life, but also the most neglected item, especially in food packaging, these desiccants usually contain lime powder, to know that quicklime is a very strong alkaline compound, if not properly handled when it is prone to explosion, and also produce a highly corrosive solution of calcium hydroxide.
Fourth, repeated teaching does not change
Children's nature is to be exploratory and curious about the things around them, which often gives danger a lurking opportunity.
It is not uncommon to face such cases:
In 2011, a junior high school student in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, put a packet of food desiccant into a thermos cup. Soon after, the thermos cup suddenly exploded, making a loud noise, causing the student to basically lose sight in his right eye.
In July 2013, a second-year student in Jiangsu Province did not believe that desiccant could explode when exposed to water, and during an experiment with his classmates, his arm was burned by liquid splashed when a plastic bottle exploded.
In 2015, a 5-year-old child in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, accidentally splashed food desiccant into his eyes after opening it. It has been diagnosed that the child's eyeballs and eyelids are burned and endophthalmitis in both eyes may cause permanent visual impairment.
Before this, many parents did not tell their children that these things were not to be touched, so there was no dangerous concept of desiccant in the children's hearts.
These bloody facts have also become a wake-up call that children must not be allowed to touch these dangerous objects because of their curiosity or fun.
Therefore, parents with children should put away all the dangerous items in the house to avoid eating children who are invisible to adults and playing with them as toys.
Fifth, how powerful is the desiccant
In life we buy some packaged food often have desiccant, desiccant is mainly divided into two types, one is silica gel type desiccant, this type of desiccant brings us little harm, the other is quicklime desiccant, this desiccant has a great risk problem, as well as dangerous problems.
If quicklime encounters water, it reacts with water and heats up, producing calcium hydroxide. If the amount of desiccant is large, and it is put into water, and fused with water in the bottle, it will also produce high temperature, and the gas in the bottle will naturally expand when heated, but the bottle itself is not strong.
What's more, when plastic meets heat, it will greatly reduce the degree of solidity. In this way, the bottle may explode, and at the same time as the bottle explodes, it will splash hot water containing calcium hydroxide, which is a strong alkali. Dissolving our body's fat and protein brings some irreparable damage to our body.
The following is the experiment done by the firefighter uncle, I hope to warn everyone:
Pour 2 packs of 22 grams of desiccant into a mineral water bottle that has been dried without water, (room temperature 28 ° C) and then take 100 ml of water from a measuring cup, and then pour the water into the mineral water bottle.
At this time, there are slight bubbles in the bottle but make a moisturizing sound, the firefighter tightens the bottle cap and shakes slightly, the bottle body then quickly began to expand, at this time the bottle body temperature has been as high as 93 ° C, for safety, the firefighter immediately took the bottle outside, about 3 minutes later, only heard a "bang", the bottle cap was blown away.
In order to better verify the experiment of lime desiccant meets water crisis, firefighters repeat the above steps and increase the lime to 4 packs.
It can be seen that the temperature of the bottle rises rapidly, and when the temperature reaches about 67 ° C, the mineral water bottle explodes, the mineral water bottle is seriously deformed, and the liquid in the bottle is also splashed out everywhere, and the farthest point reaches more than 8 meters.
Experts have repeatedly warned that this alkaline liquid will cause some indestructible damage to the human body, especially the eyes, because it is extremely damaging to the cornea.
Therefore, parents with children's characters at home must pay attention to not letting their children contact desiccant, especially quicklime desiccant.
Epilogue:
Therefore, when parents give their children snacks again, they must take out the desiccant inside and put it out of the child's reach, and must not let the child get it.
In the face of many desiccant on the market now written in English logos, these signs do not say that children can not understand, even adults can not understand.
Therefore, it is really necessary to propose to the relevant departments, it is best to mark the packaging of "dangerous goods" with Chinese.
Parents should also always emphasize the "importance of safety" to their children, so that children have safety awareness and principles dangerous goods.
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