“I truly can’t emphasize enough how dangerous these water beads are to kids, babies, even pets,” Whitney Reese, an ICU nurse and mother of three, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Water beads were initially used as “agricultural products intended to maintain soil moisture,” according to Poison.org, a website that tracks hazardous products. “There were days in the hospital before the water bead was discovered that she slept about 98% of the day,” Reese also said. “She had zero energy.”Getty Images/iStockphoto
Baby Harper managed to swallow two of the beads; her mother still has no idea where the child found them, she said.
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