Luca was sent home from the hospital after 16 days, but she still hasn’t totally recovered her vision in one eye.
Given her daughter’s serious injuries, Jodi, who lives in Perth, Western Australia, feels that the packaging’s warnings need to be strengthened.
The washing capsule was touted as a “3 in 1” capsule with “Comfort Freshness” and was sold as Omo in Australia but as Persil in the UK.
“Luca was helping me with the laundry, and I gave her the pod just to hold while I put the washing on,” said Jodi, 34, a sales manager. She had already bitten into it and it had entered her eyes by.
The time I turned around. They squirt when you pop them since they’re rather substantial. As children do, she rubbed her eyes, causing it to spread to both of them.