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Health damage attacking infant : Cigarette is cause of 40 percent of drink by mistake accident by child


Drink by mistake of mobile phone strap increases rapidly, too


By JCPRESS

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that investigated the accident to which the child swallowed familiar housewares clarified that the cigarette accounted for 40 percent of the entire drink by mistake accident. Next, "Medicine and over-the-couter drug" continues. Two places occupied the half of the drink by mistake accident.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is warning to users because children fall easily into the serious condition by the drink by mistake of the cigarette and the medicine, "Consideration is necessary for handling and location".

Moreover, this ministry clarified that the occurrence of the drink by mistake accident of the mobile phone strap and accessory increased rapidly as a recent trend.


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