Chicago Mom Warns Parents About Bathtub Toys After Son Nearly Loses Vision Due to Bacterial Infection
Chicago-based journalist and mommy blogger, Eden Strong recently warned parents to wash their children's bath toys after her son, Baylor, got a bacterial infection from it and nearly lost his vision.
KVUEabc news site caught the story in a Facebook group for moms. In her post, Strong said her two-year-old Baylor almost lost his vision after contracting a bacterial infection from a bath toy.
She also said the nanny was giving her son a bath when he accidentally squirted water from one of the toys in the tub into his eye. Later in the evening, the boy's eye turned pink.
The blogger mom said they took Baylor to an urgent care facility, but his eyes and face got worse. "I was 10 times more than horrified," she said.
At that time, her son's eye was actually "coming out from between his eyelids," as she screamed at her husband to contact 911 or get their car.
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Initially Hesitant to Do the CT Scan
Strong said her husband knew that she was a bit dramatic. She said a temperature check showed that the boy had a high fever. But after seeing their child's eyes, they rushed him to an emergency room.
At first, Strong said she hesitated to do the CT scan. She explained, no mother would want to put her baby into into something that has "so much radiation," and those attending to their child at the ER were quite firm the procedure needed to happen.
The infection could spread to Baylor's brain, adding she would never have thought that a bath toy could have resulted in a severe eye condition.
The following week, wrote Strong, their son had severe cellulitis that eventually spread down his face and to both eyes.
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Advice to Parents
Baylor's parents may have been warned that the boy may lose vision in the affected eye. But in the end, she said, "Thank the Lord, his eyes healed."
Strong said that Baylor's accident happened in March when this global health crisis just started, and she shared her son's story only this month as there was too much fear of the pandemic back then, and she did not want to contribute to such apprehensions.
As for the bathtub toys, the writer mom advises parents to throw them out. She said these things could not just be cleaned.
"I don't have any 'moldy tub toy pictures' to show here," she wrote on her Facebook post, as there was no visible mold in the toys.
Strong admitted she did not know that even if one does regular bleach-cleaning with the toy, the fact that they never completely dry on the inside means "invisible bacteria," can still grow.
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Sep 30, 2020 10:00 PM EDT
