Do not let this happen to you

Froglet

maemaesmummyMy DS at 12 months managed to pull one out (ambipur) and suck the liquid out...:eek: he was fortunately ok but :eek:

julie2710 wrote: »

Ambipur must be safe as my son did this when he was about the same age!! He was ok too - maybe they taste nice?:eek:

gosh that was fortunate.No it wasn't ambipur. Or febreeze.

And yes,the doctor said definitely a chemical burn.

aheaton46

moonrakerz wrote: »

Why on earth do people buy these things ? If your house smells get rid of the cause - don't try and mask it with a cocktail of chemicals !

Want to buy a second hand baby? Or are you offering to change their nappies at your house?

I also had a plug-in freshener which leaked, and bubbled the paint down the skirting board. Have avoided them since then.

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Hi,

maemaesmummy wrote: »

My DS at 12 months managed to pull one out (ambipur) and suck the liquid out...:eek: he was fortunately ok but :eek:

oh well, least his poo would smell nice. :rotfl:

Glad he was ok.

aheaton46 wrote: »

Want to buy a second hand baby? Or are you offering to change their nappies at your house?

You could try the above method for fragrant poo. :rotfl:

cybergibbons

ellay864 wrote: »

My MIL moved into a temporary flat and there was a plug in freshener pluged in, the sort with liquid rather than jelly. She unplugged it so she could plug her TV and DVD player in and just lay the air freshener onto the glass topped stand that the TV stood on. 3 weeks later she was watching TV when there was a loud cracking noise and the TV fell forward, luckily fell off rather than smashed the glass top ripping itself out from the wall as it fell. It turned out the oily liquid in the freshener had seeped out, coated the base of the TV stand and the heat from the TV caused a reaction so that the stand itself cracked. She was terrified at the time and it was only when we got round there and felt the oil we realised what had happened.

So, apart from the oil being on the stand, is there any reason to believe that the two are linked? Glass is impervious to nearly all chemicals.

I've seen several tempered glass tables and shelves explode, likely due to residual stress during manufacture.

moonrakerz

aheaton46 wrote: »

Want to buy a second hand baby? Or are you offering to change their nappies at your house?

No thanks, I have a first hand grandson - who can do the most amazing things in his nappy. (AND had 3 of my own !)
I also have windows that open, several extractor fans and a bin outside.

Sublime_2

moonrakerz wrote: »

Why on earth do people buy these things ? If your house smells get rid of the cause - don't try and mask it with a cocktail of chemicals !

Exactly why I do not buy. Used to set off my ex's asthma. Much better to put a few drops of essential oil near a radiator for room fragrance.

POPPYOSCAR

CoolHotCold wrote: »

What did you think made the crack when bent?

Never even gave it a thought.

julesm_61

I was given a free car airfreshner from a car wash last year - basically a disc impregnated with fragrance - I didnt want it dangling from my mirror and so tucked it into my sun visor without a second thought. Came to throw it away after about 6/9 months and found the plastic on the sun visor had begun to melt and was so badly warped and bubbled that the whole visor had to be replaced!!!! Shows you how strong the chemicals are in these things.

burtons

I had a ambi pur car air freshener once and someone messed with it :mad: everyone said they didn't but i knew they had as it was turned upside down. So it dripped out of the bottle on to the dashboard and it started to melt the dashboard, it also got on to this plastic cover and melted the tabs so the cover fell off.

JOHN1982

burtons wrote: »

I had a ambi pur car air freshener once and someone messed with it :mad: everyone said they didn't but i knew they had as it was turned upside down. So it dripped out of the bottle on to the dashboard and it started to melt the dashboard, it also got on to this plastic cover and melted the tabs so the cover fell off.

I had my car valeted and the guy who did it had removed my Ambipur freshener to clean the blowers, but when he replaced it did so upside-down. Same thing happened to me, all the paint peeled off my dash! Never buy one of them again! Ha ha!