Understand the Plastic Bag Dangers for Children

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village, and today I'm giving you advice for baby proofing your bedroom. Something to keep in mind when you come from the dry cleaners is that the plastic bag that your clothes come home in are actually very deadly for a child. They pose a very real suffocation hazard, so you want to be sure that you don't keep them in the house, especially if you have a closet that is so accessible to a small child. Even in a moment that you put your clean dry cleaning and run out of the room for a second to grab something, phone or whatever, you can come back to find a very tragic scene with a child whenever there's bag involved. I recommend removing your clothes from the plastic bags immediately, tearing them up, put them in trashcan, and just getting them out of the house. As far as any sort of plastic garbage bag, you really need to keep those under the sink, in the kitchen, or the bathroom while protected by a child safety latch that your child can't get into it. Be very mindful always of these things. Don't come home and just drop your packages on the ground and go into the kitchen or go into another room and leave your child alone with these bags. There have been many cases, countless cases, of children suffocating this way."