Lil' Luxuries

Oct. 7, 2016 -- approximately 86,000 Lil' Luxuries toddler bathtubs with cloth swings are being recalled due to the fact the swing can detach from the bathtub and pose an injury and drowning danger, the U.S. customer Product safety commission says.

The corporation has received ninety one reports of the sling detaching, together with 11 reviews of infants who suffered a bump to the head.

The tubs were allotted by means of Rhode Island-based summer season little one, Inc. and offered at shops throughout the U.S. from October 2012 through October 2013 for approximately $60. The tubs stay available on the secondhand marketplace, the CPSC said.

customers must forestall using the cloth sling inside the bathtub and call summer season infant for a replacement sling with a white plastic attachment clip. touch the corporation toll-unfastened at 844-612-4254 from nine a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday thru Thursday and 9 a.m. to three p.m. ET on Friday, or go to its internet site.

Rapunzel Syndrome

The 38-year vintage woman went to the medical doctor after two days of nausea, vomiting and constipation, according to the document of her case, published these days (Oct. 6) in the magazine BMJ Case reviews.

She were throwing up any meals that she tried to consume, and her stomach changed into sticking out from her body, the docs who dealt with her wrote within the report. further, the girl had misplaced about 15 lbs. (7 kilograms) over the previous 8 months, and her urge for food had considerably decreased over the preceding year.

The docs ran numerous checks, however none revealed the purpose of her symptoms, in keeping with the file. A blood check, however, did show that she had low tiers of protein in her blood.

The docs suspected that the woman's signs and symptoms were possibly being because of some thing obstructing her digestive tract, and decided to operate.

They discovered a big hairball in her belly measuring 6 x four inches (15 x 10 centimeters), with a quick tail extending into the top a part of her small intestine, according to the file. similarly down in her small intestine, the medical doctors located another hairball, measuring 1 x 1.5 inches (4 x 3 cm), they wrote.

The small hairball may have played a role within the girl's low protein levels, the doctors wrote within the record. That hairball was discovered in part of the small intestine in which protein is absorbed, and consequently it may have blocked the absorption, they wrote.

The doctors have been able to do away with both of the hairballs, and the lady recovered from her surgical treatment. She changed into cautioned to consume a excessive-protein weight loss program in addition to go through psychiatric assessment.

indeed, the urge to drag out and consume one's very own hair is regularly because of a mental fitness ailment, the medical doctors wrote within the file. when they saw the girl, they looked for other case reports about Rapunzel syndrome.

The medical doctors discovered 88 case reviews on the condition. most people of the time, Rapunzel syndrome passed off in children and teenagers, and in all however 5 of the cases, the patients were female. other intellectual health issues were also not unusual many of the patients with the situation, they located.