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Originally Posted by Javacoffee
Ummmm... gee... maybe the parents should store the cleaning solution where the kids can't get at it?
Or better yet, buy a different brand of cleaning solution that doesn't entice one to consume the contents.
How insensitive of any of us to expect parents to do what it takes to protect their own kids.
Java, we just see the world differently. If there's something that's CLEARLY confusable with a beverage, but it's a cleaning fluid, they need to do something else. Something to make it distinct.
I'm thrilled to see in this thread especially the above post with the guy who's "hermaphroditin'" after having 3 glasses of it, (humor) that my first reaction to that a decade ago is how most everyone else perceives it.
It's easy to confuse it with a drink. And that's a problem.
To a child it would look like a bottle of juice. It looked like that to me, I just happen to know what Fabuloso is.
But couldn't the same be said for any cleaner? Windex looks like blue Gatorade, Mr. clean looks like yellow Gatorade... Pine sol looks like apple juice...
Cleaning supplies are supposed to be stored away from where young children can access them. If parents choose to give their young children access to poison, that's on them.
It's easy to confuse it with a drink. And that's a problem.
Because I know I look for drinks that have baking soda, long lasting fragrance, an odor fighting formula, and clearly says multi purpose cleaner on the bottle.
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Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00
But couldn't the same be said for any cleaner? Windex looks like blue Gatorade, Mr. clean looks like yellow Gatorade... Pine sol looks like apple juice...
Cleaning supplies are supposed to be stored away from where young children can access them. If parents choose to give their young children access to poison, that's on them.
Windex is blue, and smells very strongly of cleaner. It doesn't have a graphic of a fruit on the bottle, and it's store in a cleaner type bottle, not a sports drink type container.
The problem here, is that "fabuloso" doesn't sound like a cleaner, it sounds like who knows what, and all the other clues seem like a beverage.
Earlier in this thread I posted that the Walmart Asst. Mgr. said it WAS a drink when I expressed my concern that the display appeared to be a drink display. So even HE, when told it is confusing that it looks like a drink, still didn't "get it". It looks like a drink.
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Because I know I look for drinks that have baking soda, long lasting fragrance, an odor fighting formula, and clearly says multi purpose cleaner on the bottle.
I actually do think all that stuff was added since the original item hit the market. Because yeah, it's confusing.
The original display was very difficult to tell WHAT it was even if you gave it a couple seconds of your undivided attention, which actually should be long enough if you're trying to guess should I drink this or should I mop the floor with it.
It sounds like the girl made it home before the shock set in, so it seems possible she could have told her parents that she accidently ate peanuts because she just looked at the color of the bag. I could see that scenario potentially happening. But I'd agree the words seem to carefully chosen by the parents, and they certainly leave the door open for a lawsuit.
If I were a high schooler today, I'd go into allergy medicine. There's something going on, all these allergies weren't around 20+ years ago when I was a kid. Someday, hopefully someone figures out the trigger.
Well, as a teacher and school administrator since 1973, I remember having kids with peanut allergies since I first started teaching.
Windex is blue, and smells very strongly of cleaner. It doesn't have a graphic of a fruit on the bottle, and it's store in a cleaner type bottle, not a sports drink type container.
Fabuloso also smells strongly of cleaner. Ive never seen it in a sports drink bottle, it comes in a bottle similar to other all purpose cleaners like Lysol, pine sol, or Mr. clean. All of which also have pictures of fruit on their fruit scented bottles.
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The problem here, is that "fabuloso" doesn't sound like a cleaner, it sounds like who knows what, and all the other clues seem like a beverage.
I'm not sure what a cleaner sounds like, but I know all purpose cleaner defiantly sounds like a cleaner.
I wouldn't say you "got rid of it", I would say you desensitized him gradually. Much like allergy shots are done. He probably still has the allergy, just requiring a MUCH larger dose than before for a reaction, which is excellent.
Interesting. Maybe that's why kids didn't seem to have peanut allergies in the 1940s and 1950s. Maybe the symptoms were misdiagnosed as diaper rash or something, and the peanut treats continued to be handed out to us until we kids slowly built up a resistance.
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Fabuloso also smells strongly of cleaner. Ive never seen it in a sports drink bottle, it comes in a bottle similar to other all purpose cleaners like Lysol, pine sol, or Mr. clean. All of which also have pictures of fruit on their fruit scented bottles.
I'm not sure what a cleaner sounds like, but I know all purpose cleaner defiantly sounds like a cleaner.
Well, a cleaner sounds like Pine Sol, Lysol or Mr. Clean.
Barring some mental disability, a 15 year old is not a "child". A tragic death nonetheless.
Can't vote, can't buy a drink, can't smoke, can't fight in the armed forces, can't drive (in many states), has to attend school... yep... adult, not a child.
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