The slime craze is still going strong in homes around Ireland.
And the rest of the world, too, if Pinterest is anything to go by.
Which is why, if your kids are obsessed with making or playing with slime too, you need to be aware that many experts are now warning about the poisoning risk of certain ingredients that often go into slime-making.
In Australian, for instance, The Queensland Poisons Information Centre are now alerting parents to the dangers of making slime at home, after witnessing an increased number of poisoning due to Borax ingestion.
Borax, in case you are wondering, is also known as sodium borate, and is often used as one of the key ingredients of this popular homemade substance.
According to a representative from The Queensland Poisons Information Centre, a tiny, diluted amounts of the mineral won’t do any harm, ingesting larger amounts pose a real risk to kids.
And as we all know, some kids just put everything in their mouths for a taste.
And as the slime making trend is still gathering momentum, many experts feel parents need to be made aware of the potential dangers.
Other experts are warning we need to be careful not to let children have Borax come into contact with their skin – especially broken skin – with recommendations to use gloves when making the popular slime. As well as this, to minimize risks, spokeswoman Genevieve Adamo from NSW Poisons Information Centre in Australia is warning parents to treat Borax as a potential poison and to make sure it is kept somewhere locked away, where children cannot get their hands on it unless undersurpervision from an adult.
Side effects of ingesting Borax include nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea – and in rare cases it can be fatal.
