"Poisonous Children'S Clothing" Endangering Children'S Health Must Be On Guard.

The quality inspection bulletin recently released by AQSIQ showed that 26 products were not qualified in the sampling inspection of 200 children's garments in 9 provinces and cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.

Because infants are poor in body sensitivity and disease resistance, unqualified children's clothing containing toxic substances can cause allergies, inflammation and even induce cancer in infants.

Therefore, the quality and safety of children's clothing should be highly regarded by all parties.

Infant clothing safety is often ignored.

Clothing is often referred to as the "second skin" of the human body. When infants are wearing safe and qualified clothing, they can provide protection for infants and young children, but if infant clothing itself remains toxic and harmful substances, it will cause harm to their bodies.

Infant skin is delicate, sensitive, resistant to friction and disease resistance, susceptible to irritation and infection, and the sweat glands and blood vessels of the skin are in development. It can not regulate the pH of the skin with the change of the ambient temperature. Therefore, the unqualified clothing will damage the infant's body more.

Many parents and teachers are worried about their choice: some young parents often buy infant clothing at online stores. They think this method is more convenient, and the styles of online infant clothing are very novel. Some parents will go to the small commodity market to buy baby clothes, because the clothes sold there are cheaper. Some kindergarten teachers will buy children's costumes for children in the small commodity market every time they perform.

It is not hard to see that when parents and teachers choose clothes for children, they value the style and price of clothing, but neglect the most important factor, the quality and safety of infant clothing.

Unqualified infant clothing hidden danger

Because of the special characteristics of infants and young children, the national standard for infant clothing safety is more stringent than adult standards.

The test items include: pH value, formaldehyde content, decomposable aromatic amine dye, color fastness to water, color fastness to perspiration, color fastness to dry friction, color fastness to saliva and odor.

Because many infants like to bite their clothes, the test of saliva color fastness has been added to infant textile products to prevent textile dyes from passing through saliva into infants and young children, which has an adverse effect on the development of infants.

However, in the sampling test, there are still many unqualified infant clothing, which brings great hidden danger to children's health.

PH value exceeds the scope of damage to young children's skin.

The normal pH value of human skin should be between 5.5-7.0, slightly acidic, which can protect the human body from infection by bacteria.

The infant's skin is alkaline, and its ability to regulate the pH of the skin varies with the change of the ambient temperature. If the clothes worn by infants and children are over pH (that is, infants wearing unacceptable clothes of pH value), the pH of the skin will be destroyed and cause skin inflammation, which will damage the sweat gland system and the nervous system of infants and young children in.

For some sensitive infants, it is easy to cause allergic symptoms such as pruritus.

Many unqualified infant clothing in the production process, the acid and alkali function is not enough and dye control is not up to standard will cause the clothing pH value beyond the safe range.

Excessive formaldehyde is harmful.

Some small factories, in order to make infants and young children clothing to achieve wrinkle, shrinkproof, flame retardant, to maintain the durability of printing, in the production process, add formaldehyde to the auxiliaries.

In the process of wearing and using formaldehyde over standard textile products, free formaldehyde will gradually release, causing skin inflammation and injury to respiratory system through contact with respiratory tract and skin.

If long-term intake of low concentration of formaldehyde can cause symptoms such as loss of appetite, weakness and insomnia.

The toxicity to infants is manifested by asthma, tracheitis, chromosomal abnormality, and decreased resistance.

Excessive decomposition of aromatic amine dyes can cause cancer.

Infants and young children whose organs are not developed and have poor resistance, long wearing clothes containing decomposable aromatic amine dyes will lead to the decomposition of aromatic amine dyes into infants and children, and the reduction reaction to produce carcinogens - aromatic amine compounds.

Aromatic amine compounds can cause headache, nausea, fatigue, insomnia, vomiting, cough and other bad symptoms in infants and young children, and even induce changes in the structure and function of DNA in cells.

Decomposable aromatic amine dyes are used by many small and medium-sized textile and garment manufacturers for infant clothing fabrics because of their diverse colors, simple manufacture and low price. Banned azo dyes are 24 kinds of carcinogenic aromatic amines as intermediates, which are extremely harmful.

Parents and teachers like to buy children's cute clothes with bright colors, embroidered and printed designs. They do not know that in the decoration of unqualified infant clothing, they are likely to contain carcinogenic dyes.

Unqualified color fastness can lead to infection.

Because infants often bite their clothes and other objects in their mouths, infants and young children will be dyed or damaged by their harmful residues when the color fastness of infants and children is less than 4.

And clothes and skin close, in the friction process, the dye will stimulate the skin to appear erythema and itching, if not found in time, with the extension of the friction time, there may be papules, large patches of erythema, infants will continue to scratch after scratching, will appear ulceration, erosion, and even large blister, improper handling may also cause bacterial infection.

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How to choose safe baby clothes?

Parents and teachers should take full consideration of the physiological characteristics of children when choosing infant clothing. In addition to showing soft, breathable and comfortable, they should also pay attention to the following common sense:

Pay attention to the relevant signs on infant clothing.

When buying infant clothing, first look at whether there are trademarks and Chinese factory name and site.

Parents and teachers should not buy such products for infants if they are not likely to be products or counterfeit products produced by informal manufacturers.

Next is to see whether there is a component mark, mainly refers to the fabric of clothing, the ingredients of the logo, the percentage of all fiber content should be clear and correct, and the filling material should also indicate the composition and content of the filler.

The most important thing is to have the product's qualification certificate, product execution standard number and product quality grade. The label of infant clothing should be marked with the technical requirements of class a products that meet the national textile mandatory standard GB18401-2003.

Pay attention to infant clothing fabrics.

The skin area of infants is relatively large, sweating from the lenticels is 2 times that of adults.

When choosing infant clothing, try to choose pure cotton clothing, such as ordinary cotton or natural colored cotton products, soft handle, sweat and air permeability, and can also choose silk products.

It is not suitable to use chemical fiber products. It is easy to start static electricity and has poor air permeability. It will breed bacteria and lead to dermatitis.

Pay attention to the sewing thread of the main parts.

Carefully observe whether the sewing lines of the main parts of infant clothing are straight, and whether there are many sewing threads outside the joints.

Pull at the side seam to see if there is "slippage" in the seam, and pay attention to the slippage.

Pay attention to the color of infant clothing.

When buying children's underwear and other personal clothes, they should choose light colors to avoid clothes that are easy to fade, such as red, black and deep blue, and choose children's clothing with plain colors and small print patterns.

Pay attention to the safety design of infant clothing.

Pay attention to all kinds of accessories and decorations on infant clothing, such as whether buttons are firm and elastic.

Special attention should be paid to the fastness of buttons or decorations so that children can easily tear away the wrong mouth and cause foreign bodies in the trachea.

Parents and teachers should also pay attention to the drawstring on infant clothing, because children's clothes and caps and neck bands are easy to hold children. When they get on or off, they can easily be caught and dragged.

Pay attention to the smell of infant clothing.

When buying clothes for infants and young children, put clothes on the nose and smell carefully. If clothes smell bad, they can't buy them.

Because these clothes may be moldy, or contain high boiling oil, aromatic hydrocarbons and other substances, will stimulate the respiratory system of infants and young children.

For enterprises that emphasize brands, reputation and quality, they will send products to relevant quality inspection departments for inspection and strictly control quality and safety.

But for-profit workshop enterprises often circulate products that have not passed the national textile compulsory standard GB18401-2003 to the market.

Therefore, parents and teachers should pay attention to the safety of clothes when choosing clothes for infants and children, and try to choose the famous brand products that conform to class a standards, so as to avoid the harm to children's health caused by unqualified children's clothing.