- “When it’s in a candy form or cookies, people don’t think of it in the same way as household chemicals or other things a child could get into,” said Dr. Marit Tweet, a medical toxicologist with the Southern Illinois School of Medicine, who led the study published this week in Pediatrics.
- The numbers revealed a change from about 200 cases per year in 2017 to more than 3,000 in 2021.
- About 8 percent of the cases resulted in children being admitted to critical care units typically due to problems with breathing or coma, with more than a third of the children visiting emergency rooms.
