A mum says she was left distraught and has warned different parents to watch out after her five-year-old son nearly hung himself on a fly curtain.
Justine Church, who lives in Strood, purchased the merchandise on Amazon to maintain the flies out, and put it up at her again door.
On Thursday, it ended up getting tangled round her son Miles’ neck when he went to stroll by way of it.
The mum-of-five stated: “I used to be at work and my husband was upstairs hoovering, clearly he couldn’t hear a lot as a result of the hoover was on.
“His twin brother Darwin managed to untangle him however now it mainly appears like he’s obtained whiplash round his neck, it’s in all probability going to scar.
mpu1
“He was fairly traumatised on the time and it was actually sore as a result of it’s like a burn.”
The 42-year-old stated she was “distraught” when she obtained again from work and came upon what had occurred.
“When you’re looking online you know what you want, you know the size you want, you put it in your basket and you order it,” she stated.
“It arrived, and didn’t have any warning on the bundle however since then, I’ve Googled it and seen that it’s occurred earlier than.
“When I appeared on the evaluations on Amazon, there’s so many individuals it’s occurred to.”
Justine says extra folks want to pay attention to the risks fly curtains can pose to younger kids.
She stated: “It’s that point of 12 months the place it’s good to be extra acutely aware of issues like paddling swimming pools, blind cords, the home windows being open – I’ve obtained 5 kids so I’m totally conscious of issues of safety round kids and my home is baby-proofed.
“We can’t supervise them all the time so we’ve obtained window locks, a padlocked gate, and the blind cords are put up.
mpu2
“But once you’re shopping for a blind it’s slapped all around the field that there’s hazard of choking – on this there was no warning in any respect.
“On their advert, in case you scroll proper all the way down to the underside there’s a authorized disclaimer that kids should not undergo it unsupervised however that’s not sensible.”
She immediately took the curtain down and put it within the bin after the incident.
“I’ve left a review but I don’t want a refund, I just want people to be more aware because you don’t link a curtain like that to strangulation,” she stated.
“I’m fairly pleased with the flies flying spherical the home now – I’m simply shocked on the quantity of evaluations on-line say how unhealthy they’re.
“If he hadn’t been untangled by his brother, I may have been burying him, it could have been a very totally different story.”
