Sandbox- A poll

Re: Sandbox- A poll

• ThePinkSuperhero member

  July 2014

  stephaniefine said:

  I've never heard that play sand is bad. Is this a new thing?

  I don't know if it's an actual thing or just one of those thing the craziest internet crazies worry about.  So naturally, I come here to ask you internet crazies  )

  
  
  

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• bumpuser1509193 member

  July 2014

  That's the first I've heard.

  "Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kid's live better and ruining your own." Willie Robertson, 'Duck Dynasty'
  

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• ThePinkSuperhero member

  July 2014

  Radon!  Another thing I have to get around to testing for.....  8-}

  
  
  

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• KarmB member

  July 2014

  never heard of that but im still calling cps ;-)

  
  

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• ThePinkSuperhero member

  July 2014

  jinxyjane said:

  I tend not to get my news from YHL, so I think you're fine. ) (Am I remembering correctly that you follow/followed their blog?)

  HA!  You are remembering correctly, and that was one of the places I saw parents freaking out about sand.  Link.  Summary:  they spent tons of time building a sandbox, and then turned it into a rockbox instead to avoid dangerous, dangerous sand.  I think a rockbox sounds lame as hell. 

  
  
  

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• bumpuser1509193 member

  July 2014

  Since my kid enjoys throwing (and tasting) sand, I'd rather NOT have a rockbox.

  "Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kid's live better and ruining your own." Willie Robertson, 'Duck Dynasty'
  

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• reinedecajun member

  July 2014

  This is real? Holy shit. We play in the dirt on the regular. I've never heard of this deadly sand issue.

   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• zyas member

  July 2014

  I've never heard about those dangers before but there is something that freaks me out and you may not know about this.
  
  Raccoons are the ones you need to watch out for. They are a latrine animal so they commonly will go in sand boxes if they can find them. Some raccoons (usually a very high percentage of them) are carriers of a parasite called baylisascaris which are extremely dangerous to people. (And other animals but not dangerous to raccoons oddly enough). This parasite's eggs live in the raccoon poop for a very long time. It's transmitted by mouth so if a kid finds infected raccoon pop, gets eggs on their fingers and then touches their mouth, that's how it gets into them.
  
  The scariest thing is that there is basically no cure. The parasite works it's way through the human body to the brain and burrows around in there. Eventually seizures happen and it's usually fatal.
  
  I never knew about this until I went to school at a zoo and we had a raccoon who was a carrier. It had to be on special medication for the rest if it's life. Learning about this scared the shit out of me, especially since we had raccoons in our yard my whole childhood.
  
  Now we have a raccoon of our own and thankfully he does not have this parasite. We had him dewormed when he was a baby and we do regular fecal tests on him because I am paranoid. We also educate people about this at our animal shows. It's alarming how many kids tell us they feed the raccoons in their yard and they come up to their door.
  
  Sorry for the essay I just wrote but something as serious as this, you would think this would be something everyone should be aware of.
  
  Having said all that, we do have a sand box (the turtle one) and I try to keep it covered. Our pig keeps knocking the cover off it like everyday so it's been more of a nuisance. I'm thinking of getting rid of the sand and just use it as a little pool.

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• bumpuser1509193 member

  July 2014

  Yes! @zyas‌ between parasitology and microbiology (same semester) I wanted to put myself and Cooper in bubbles!

  "Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kid's live better and ruining your own." Willie Robertson, 'Duck Dynasty'
  

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• zyas member

  July 2014

  vanessaLC said:

  Yes! @zyas‌ between parasitology and microbiology (same semester) I wanted to put myself and Cooper in bubbles!

  @vanessaLC You and me both!! I've been even more paranoid about everything since having Ava. Someone tried to give us another baby raccoon a few days ago but we had to turn them down. Not only are we moving but one is enough! There's no way I can go through that constant worry again - I had so many sleepness nights waiting for the test results to come back to make sure ours was parasite free! 

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• ashleynaka member

  July 2014

  I have a feeling he would need to consume a lot of the sandbox to get hurt by the chemicals. He is in more danger by eating the sand itself. Haha!

  

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

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