PEDIATRICS Vol. 78 No. 3 September 1986, pp. 546-547
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Hazards of Baby Powder

HOWARD C. MOFENSON MD1, THOMAS R. CARACCIO PHARM D1, SHARON OKUN BA, PIS1, and JOSEPH GREENSHER MD1

1 Nassau County Medical Center's Long Island Regional Poison Control Center, 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow, NY 11554

To the Editor.—

In a recent letter to the editor, Cotton and Davidson1 have brought the hazards of baby powder aspiration to the attention of the medical community.

We have been monitoring episodes of possible powder inhalation and ingestion in our community (population 3 million) since 1980, when two infants were hospitalized

[See table in the PDF file]

for powder aspiration and one required ventilator therapy for two days. Our recent data (Table) shows a progressive decrease in the number of possible inhalations and ingestion episodes since 1981 when our article2 was published in Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics publicized the hazard of baby powder.