Halloween is scarier than you might think.

[phrodeau]

http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/10/trick-or-treat-a-few-halloween-risks-you-may-meet/

Halloween is a risky day for young pedestrians, with twice as many deaths as on a typical day. Kids aged 12 to 18, the ones often roaming the streets without parents and with distractions like friends and cellphones, are most at risk. As Halloween has become a more adult holiday, it also has become a major drinking occasion, says the National Highway Safety Administration. About 20% of pedestrian deaths on Halloween involve a drunken driver.

Before you borrow your best friend’s costume from last year, make sure that it is free of leftover bacteria. According to Dr. Pat Basu, ”Wearing an unwashed costume from last year – whether your costume or your friend’s – brings a risk of skin infection (or, if it’s a leotard, a yeast infection).” A poorly fitted Halloween mask can result in skin irritation that may lead to acne or a skin infection. In addition, masks can also restrict vision and cause headaches.

Make sure that kids trick or treat in groups or are chaperoned by parents until they are old enough. Additional preventative measures such as monitoring candy intake and reassuring your child’s costume fits are also important.

About 4,400 people in the United States visited emergency rooms in 2013 for Halloween-related injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. More than half were adults. The most common mishaps, accounting for 56% of cases are pumpkin carving injuries.

Halloween candies do more damage to the teeth than soft chocolates, dentists say. The sticky stuff is capable of pulling out crowns and fillings and damaging braces and other dental work.

So, as you and your children begin to plan your Halloween Trick or Treating, it is important to consider the dangers lurking in various places.

It used to be razor blades in apples and popcorn balls full of LSD that we had to worry about.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Stay out of gingerbread houses.

 

[Fata Morgana]

That's what you get when you send your kids out begging.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

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[Bob_Bytchin]

http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/10/trick-or-treat-a-few-halloween-risks-you-may-meet/

It used to be razor blades in apples and popcorn balls full of LSD that we had to worry about.

There are no documented cases of any razor blades (other than pranks being pulled on friends by friends), cyanide, needles, poison, LSD etc... being found in Halloween candy.

The only known death from poisoned candy was by a dad in Houston who killed his own kid for insurance money.

 

[Jennifer]

There are no documented cases of any razor blades (other than pranks being pulled on friends by friends), cyanide, needles, poison, LSD etc... being found in Halloween candy.

The only known death from poisoned candy was by a dad in Houston who killed his own kid for insurance money.

So it WAS my dad who put needles in my bread? I fucking knew it. Asshole.