Child Proof Advice: Product Recalls

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Product Recalls

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission,
4330 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm(s) named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product(s). Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2010
Release # 10-136

Tiny Love Recalls Wind Chime Toys Due to Puncture and Laceration Hazards

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Name of Product: Wind Chime Toys Units: About 600,000 in the U.S. and 200,000 in Canada

Distributor: Tiny Love Inc., of New York, N.Y. & the Maya Group of Huntington Beach, CA

Hazard: The wind chime toy can be pulled apart exposing sharp metal rods, posing puncture and laceration hazards to the baby.

Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received five reports of babies pulling apart the wind chimes exposing the sharp metal rods, including a report of a minor injury to a 24-month-old baby who punctured his cheek with the rods.

Description: This recall involves wind chime toys sold separately, with the Gymini Kick & Play Activity Gym and Tiny Smarts Gift Sets. The toy produces the sound of a wind chime. "Tiny Love" is printed on a tag on the toy. The following names and item numbers are included in this recall:

Name / Item Number
Baby Wind Chime / # 493
Baby Wind Chime - Ocean / # 593
Tiny Smarts - Baby Bunny / # 512
Wind Chime - Duck (*The Wind Chime - Duck is sold with the Gymini Kick and Play Activity Gym. Only the Wind Chime is affected by this Recall.) / # 811
Wind Chime - Louie / # 516
Wind Chime - Ella / # 517
Tiny Smarts Gift Set (*Bunny Wind Chime is the only product affected by this Recall.) / # 539

Wind chimes sold with other Tiny Love Activity Gyms are not included in this recall.

Sold at: Toys R Us, Walmart, Target, Buy Buy Baby and TJ Maxx stores nationwide from February 2002 through February 2010 for about $8 separately, $22 for the Tiny Smarts Gift Sets and $70 with the Gymini Kick & Play Activity Gym.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled wind chimes from babies and contact Tiny Love to receive a free replacement toy.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Tiny Love toll-free at (888) 791-8166 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.tinylove.com

Note: Health Canada's press release is available at http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/recall-retrait-eng.jsp?re_id=974

To see this recall on CPSC's web site, including pictures of the recalled products, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10136.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2010
Release # 10-137

Firm's Recall Hotline: (888) 427-4829
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
HC Media Contact: (613) 957-2983

Britax Recalls Strollers Due to Risk of Fingertip Amputations and Lacerations

Name of Product: Britax "Blink" Umbrella Strollers Units: About 14,000 in the U.S. and 900 in Canada

Importer: Britax Child Safety, Inc., of Charlotte, N.C. Manufactured in: China

Hazard: The stroller's hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: This recall involves all Britax "Blink" single umbrella strollers. "Blink" is printed on the metal frame on both sides of the stroller, below the hand grips. The recalled "Blink" strollers have model numbers U261813, U261814, U261815, U261816, U261817, U271813, U271817 and U271815 and were manufactured between May 2009 and September 2009. The model number and manufacturing date can be found on a white label on the stroller frame, near the bottom of the stroller basket.

Sold at: Buy Buy Baby and other juvenile product and mass merchandise retailers nationwide in the U.S. and Canada and on the Web at www.Amazon.com, www.babiesrus.com, www.Target.com and www.Diapers.com from July 2009 through February 2010 for about $150.

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled strollers and contact Britax to receive free stroller hinge covers.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Britax toll-free at (888) 427-4829 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website at www.BlinkRecall.com

Note: Health Canada's press release is available at http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/recall-retrait-eng.jsp?re_id=971

To see this recall on CPSC's web site, including a picture of the recalled product, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10137.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2010
Release # 10-138

Pull Toys Recalled by Manhattan Group LLC Due to Choking and Aspiration Hazards

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Name of Product: Pull-A-Long Friends Toucan(tm), Pull-A-Long Friends Alligator(tm), and Pull-A-Long Friends Sharky(tm)

Units: About 2,400 in the United States and 400 in Canada Manufactured in: Thailand

Manufacturer: Manhattan Group LLC, of Minneapolis, Minn.

Hazard: The toy has wooden components that can break or come loose, posing a choking/aspiration hazard to young children.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: This recall involves three types of pull-toys: Pull-A-Long Friends Toucan(tm) with lot code 210720GB, Pull-A-Long Friends Alligator(tm) with lot code 210750GB, and Pull-A-Long Friends Sharky(tm) with lot code 210530GB. The Toucan has a large yellow and black beak and blue striped wings. The crocodile is green and has a red ridge on its back and red wheels with yellow polka dots. The shark has blue swirls painted on its wheels and an orange wooden fish on the pull string. The lot code is printed on the bottom of the toy.

Sold at: Gift and specialty stores nationwide, online and through catalogs from September 2009 through January 2010 for about $22.

Remedy: Consumers should take the toys away from young children immediately and return them to the store where purchased for a refund or a replacement toy.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Manhattan Group at (800) 541-1345 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit the firm's Web site at www.manhattantoy.com

Note: Health Canada's press release is available at http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/recall-retrait-eng.jsp?re_id=973

To see this recall on CPSC's web site, including pictures of the recalled products, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10138.html

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's Hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270. To join a CPSC e-mail subscription list, please go to https://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx. Consumers can obtain recall and general safety information by logging on to CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov.

CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to these product recalls or involve a different hazard with the same products. Please tell us about it: https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/incident.aspx

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Infant CPR First Aid

This material is for informative purposes only. For CPR certification and additional expertise, we suggest all new caregivers study the Infant CPR/Choking course offered by your local American Red Cross.

Link to Infant CPR Video
Link to Infant CPR Training Kit

What is CPR?

CPR is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

This is the lifesaving measure you can take to save your baby if they show no signs of life (breathing or movement).

CPR uses chest compressions and rescue breaths to circulate blood that contains oxygen to the brain and other vital organs until emergency medical personnel arrive. Keeping oxygenated blood circulating can help prevent brain damage — which can occur within a few minutes — and death.

Giving CPR isn't hard to do.

Follow these steps:

• Step 1: Check your baby's condition. Is your baby conscious? Flick their foot or gently tap on their shoulder and call out. If they don't respond, have someone call 911 or the local emergency number.

If you're alone with your baby, give two minutes of care as described below, then call 911 yourself.

Swiftly but gently place your baby on their back on a firm surface. Make sure they are not bleeding severely. If they are, take measures to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to the area.

Do not administer CPR until the bleeding is under control.

• Step 2: Open your baby's airway. Tilt your baby's head back with one hand and lift her chin slightly with the other.

You don't need to tilt an infant's head back very far to open her airway.

Check for signs of life (movement and breathing) for no more than ten seconds. To check for your baby's breath, put your head down next to their mouth, looking toward their feet. Look to see whether their chest is rising and listen for breathing sounds. If they are breathing, you should be able to feel their breath on your cheek.

• Step 3: Give your baby two gentle breaths. If they aren't breathing, give your baby two little breaths, each lasting just one second. Cover your baby's nose and mouth with your mouth and gently exhale into thier lungs only until you see their chest rise.

Remember that a baby's lungs are much smaller than yours, so it takes much less than a full breath to fill them. Breathing too hard or too fast can force air into the infant's stomach or damage their lungs.

If the baby's chest doesn't rise, their airway is blocked.

Give the baby first aid for choking. If the breaths go in, give your baby two breaths in a row, pausing between rescue breaths to let the air flow back out.

• Step 4: Give her 30 chest compressions. With your baby still lying on their back, place the pads of two or three fingers just below an imaginary line running between your baby's nipples.

With the pads of these fingers on that spot, compress the chest 1/2 inch to 1 inch. Push straight down.

Compressions should be smooth, not jerky.

Give her 30 chest compressions at the rate of 100 per minute. When you complete 30 compressions, give two rescue breaths (step 3, above).

•Step 5: Repeat compressions and breaths. Repeat the cycle of 30 compressions and two breaths. If you're alone with your baby, call 911 or the local emergency number after two minutes of care. Continue the cycle of compressions and breaths until help arrives. Even if they seem fine by the time help arrives, you'll want to have your baby checked by a doctor to make sure that their airway is completely clear and that they haven't sustained any internal injuries.

Infant Choking First Aid

This material is for informative purposes only. For CPR certification and additional expertise, we suggest all new caregivers study the infant CPR/Choking course offered by your local American Red Cross.

• Step 1: Assess the situation quickly. If your baby is suddenly unable to cry or cough, something may be blocking their airway, and you'll need to help your baby get it out. They may make odd noises or no sound at all while opening their mouth, and their skin may turn bright red or blue.

If they are coughing or gagging, their airway is only partially blocked. In this case, let your baby continue to cough. Coughing is the most effective way to dislodge a blockage.

If your baby isn't able to cough up the object, ask someone to call 911 or the local emergency number while you begin back blows and chest thrusts (see step 2, below).

If you're alone with your baby, give two minutes of care, then call 911. On the other hand, if you suspect that your baby's airway is closed off because their throat has swollen shut, call 911 immediately.

Your baby may be having an allergic reaction — to something they ate or to an insect bite, for example — or they may have an infection, like croup. Also call right away if your baby is at high risk for heart problems.

• Step 2: Try to dislodge the object with back blows and chest thrusts. If your baby can't clear their airway on their own and you believe something is trapped there, carefully position your baby face down on your forearm with your hand supporting their head and neck.

Rest the arm holding your baby on your thigh. Support your baby so that her head is lower than the rest of her body.

Then, using the heel of your hand, give your baby five firm and distinct back blows between her shoulder blades to try to dislodge the object.

Next, place your free hand (the one that had been delivering the back blows) on the back of your baby's head with your arm along her spine. Carefully turn her over while supporting her head and neck.

Support your baby face up with your forearm resting on your thigh, still keeping her head lower than the rest of her body.

Place the pads of two or three fingers just below an imaginary line running between your baby's nipples. To give a chest thrust, push straight down on the chest 1/2 inch to 1 inch, then allow the chest to come back to its normal position.

Give five chest thrusts. The chest thrusts should be smooth, not jerky. Continue the sequence of five back blows and five chest thrusts until the object is forced out or your baby starts to cough.

If your baby coughs, let them try to cough up the object. If your baby becomes unconscious at any time, they will need modified CPR.

Give your baby two rescue breaths. If the air doesn't go in (you don't see the chest rise), retilt the head and try two rescue breaths again. If the chest still doesn't rise, give 30 chest compressions.

Look in your baby's mouth and remove the object if you see it. Give two more rescue breaths, repeat the chest compressions, and so on, until help arrives.

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