Plastic nappy sacks are a choking risk for babies
- Nappy sacks stored near babies’ cots or prams are a critical choking hazard
- Babies are attracted to the scent of the flimsy plastic bags, the RoSPA warns
- The RoSPA advises buying nappy sacks on a roll and storing them out of reach
Alexandra Thompson Health Reporter For Mailonline
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At least 16 babies have died since 2001 after suffocating on plastic bags used for nappy disposal, with 14 deaths occurring in the last nine years.
Parents often leave flimsy nappy bags within reach of their children without realising the devastating consequences this may have.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) warns babies are attracted to the scent of nappy sacks, putting them at a critical risk.
Storing nappy sacks beneath cots for convenience may pose a serious choking hazard
Beth Amison, 23, is supporting the RoSPA’s campaign to improve nappy sack safety following the death of her seven-month-old son Maison in 2013, The Sun reported.
She said: ‘Maison was lying in his cot with a handful of nappy sacks scattered around him and one was covering his face.
‘Our changing stand had been placed next to the cot, as many people’s are, and in the pockets of the stand, I had placed nappy sacks months and months before.
‘That day he must have learned to stand for the first time as that’s the only way he could have reached the changing stand.’
The Royal Society for the Protection of Accidents advises nappy sacks be kept out of the reach of young children and recommends parents buy nappy sacks on a roll if possible
The RoSPA is pushing for greater parent awareness of the choking hazard and is campaigning for improved labelling of the risk on nappy sack packaging.
Sheila Merrill, public health adviser for RoSPA, said: ‘We want to maximise public awareness of this serious risk to young lives and develop a code of practice for the manufacturing and labelling of nappy sacks.
‘We want manufacturers to consider safety approaches such as making them unscented, producing them on a roll rather than as individual sheets or new packaging.’
This comes after an 18-month-old apparently turned blue and nearly choked to death on a Tommee Tippee dummy.
The dummy apparently fell apart while the girl was using it.
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