Electric mosquito repellent causes a fire! The second child died of accidental ingestion! The reason has been found!

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2024-07-01 13:40Creators in the field of parenting

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01 Two children died due to accidental ingestion of electric mosquito repellent liquid, probably because they bought cheap and cut corners of electric mosquito repellent liquid.

02 There are fire hazards in cheap electric mosquito repellent liquid, such as no insurance components, non-flame retardant annular heating elements, and exposed wires.

03 Among them, the suction stick of cheap electric mosquito repellent is easy to pull out, which may expose children to more liquids.

04 For this reason, parents should avoid buying cheap, miscellaneous brand electric mosquito repellent and placing it out of the reach of children.

05 At the same time, the regulatory authorities should strengthen supervision, ban unqualified electric mosquito repellent liquid in a timely manner, and protect the safety of people's lives and property.

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Two children accidentally ingested electric mosquito repellent and died after rescue failed!

After a few days of turning on the electric mosquito repellent liquid, the house burned down!

▲From "Workers' Daily"

▲From "Beijing Daily"

After another investigation, in previous years, the rescue of accidental ingestion of electric mosquito coils also occurred from time to time, and the two orders that caused death were these two orders this year. There are many fires caused by electric mosquito coils.

▲Fires in Changzhou, Suzhou, and Hengyang caused by electric mosquito coils

Hua Dad is a little confused, and he often doesn't remember to close it at home, sometimes even for a week, but there has never been any problems, right?!

With doubts, Hua Dad checked various platforms and found that there were many electric mosquito repellent liquids that could not be sold for 10 yuan, and they were so cheap that they were as cheap as not asking for money, and they were conservatively estimated to sell millions of orders.

Could it be a problem with these cheap electric mosquito coils?

Hua Dad bought 7 and came back, including 1 with Luo Yonghao's video, and one that claimed to be recommended by Brother Xiao Yang (I don't know if these two big anchors are authorized).

Among these 7 models, except for 1 in the shape of an elephant, the other 6 models are exactly the same in appearance, all like this (as shown below)! Probably all from a single source:

Dismantled one by one, compared with the electric mosquito repellent heater of a major brand, Hua Dad found three fire hazards that did not comply with laws and regulations and cut corners.

Cause of fire: Three hidden dangers

The principle of electric mosquito repellent liquid is that the PTC element generates heat, and the heat is evenly transmitted to the absorbent rod through the annular heating element, so that the mosquito repellent liquid volatilizes to achieve the mosquito repellent effect. To avoid fire hazards, flame retardant materials should be used for the annular heating element.

In addition, there must be a safety component, otherwise the heater will not automatically lose power after a short circuit, and the temperature will continue to rise and cause a fire.

Therefore, the regular electric mosquito coil heater should have two safety checkpoints - safety components and material flame retardant.

First of all, let me show you the overall structure inside them, the top is a ring-shaped heating element, and the "small black box" in the middle is a switch + fuse component.

▲Left: Brand electric mosquito repellent Right: Cheap electric mosquito repellent liquid

1. There is no insurance component!

Removing the "little black box" (switch + fuse component) separately, it is obvious that the "little black box" of the cheap goods is much smaller, with only 2 wirings; The "small black box" of the brand goods is not only large, but also has 4 wirings.

▲Left: Cheap electric mosquito repellent Right: Brand electric mosquito repellent liquid

What's missing there?

Continue to disassemble it, and find that the brand has insurance components, and all 7 cheap heaters have no insurance components, and once a short circuit occurs, there is no automatic power-off function!

▲Left: Cheap electric mosquito repellent Right: Brand electric mosquito repellent liquid

2. The annular heating element is not flame retardant!

7 types of inexpensive heaters, the shell of the annular heating element is plastic, while the big brands use ceramic.

▲Left: Brand electric mosquito repellent Right: Cheap electric mosquito repellent liquid

The annular heating element will exceed 120 °C when energized for a long time, and the ceramic one will obviously not catch fire, and the plastic one may not be.

▲ "Overview of the Development of China's Household Sanitary Insecticide Products Industry"

The standard stipulates that if the heating element housing is plastic, flame retardant and high temperature resistant plastic must be used.

According to the requirements of the national standard, it cannot be ignited, or it will be automatically extinguished within 30 seconds after being ignited, which is a qualified flame retardant material.

Hua Dad tried it, these 7 cheap ones are without exception, the shell of the heating element will be burned to the end, and it will not be automatically extinguished at all, obviously not a flame retardant material!

3. The wires are exposed!

The national standard also stipulates that the exposed wiring part must be covered with heat shrinkable tubing and double-layer fixing, just like this big brand.

▲Brand electric mosquito repellent liquid

However, the energized wiring in the 7 cheap heaters is all bare and easy to short circuit.

▲Two cheap electric mosquito repellent liquids

At least these 7 heaters of cheap electric mosquito repellent liquid do not meet the national standard, cut corners, and have a great fire hazard.

Other components fuel the fire

The plastic shell of the annular heating element is flammable + there is no fuse chip, which is a necessary condition for ignition, and the suction rod or liquid medicine is generally flammable, which will contribute to the fire.

Mosquito repellent - 6 types are flammable

Hua Dad experimented one by one, and 6 of the 8 electric mosquito repellent liquids could be ignited (including brand goods).

▲The liquid medicine can be burned

Aspirating sticks – 6 flammable

Six brown wooden or paper wicket wands were ignited (including branded products), while the other two white plastic wands were non-flammable.

But when these two plastic absorbent sticks are turned upside down, the speed of oozing liquid is obviously many times faster than that of brown wickets.

Once the shell of the non-flame retardant plastic heating element catches fire, it is more likely to cause a fire if it encounters a flammable suction rod, liquid medicine, or a plastic suction rod that can produce a large amount of liquid!!

What causes death from ingestion?

The aspiration stick can be pulled out with bare hands!

During the test, it was found that among the 8 types of electric mosquito repellent liquid, the absorbent rod of the big brand needed a lot of strength and pliers to be pulled out.

The cheap 7 models can be easily pulled out with bare hands, and this difference should be caused by the difference in production processes.

Regular mosquito coil liquid is generally pyrethroid, which is a low-toxicity or slightly toxic pesticide, if the child just sucks the sucking stick, the time is not too long, the amount is not too large, it should not be fatal.

However, the news said that the two children died by "drinking" mosquito coils, and it is likely that the children "pulled out" or "bitten" the absorbent stick and drank a large amount of liquid to death.

Cheap liquid is toxic?

According to the regulations, the electric mosquito repellent belongs to pesticide management and must be marked with toxicity (low toxicity or low toxicity), and among the 7 cheap electric mosquito repellent liquids, 5 have not marked the toxicity according to the regulations, which is in violation!

So are they more toxic? Still is......

If a child "drinks" or "sucks" a more toxic drug, it may also be the cause of death!

In this way, the cause of the fire and the death of the two children by accidental ingestion is most likely to be the purchase of electric mosquito repellent that cut corners!

This article, please also forward it to your family! Including children in the dormitory.

Let more people realize the harm of cheap and miscellaneous electric mosquito repellent liquid, and don't cause a tragedy in order to save a few dollars.

At the same time, it also warns merchants/anchors with goods that they have to touch their conscience to rush sales at low prices!

Of course, what is more important is to remind the regulatory authorities to strengthen supervision, ban unqualified electric mosquito coils in a timely manner, and protect the safety of people's lives and property!

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Tips for safe use of electric mosquito repellent liquid:

1. Don't buy cheap, off-the-shelf electric mosquito repellent liquid.

2. Keep out of reach of children as much as possible:

Electric mosquito repellent is a pesticide, although it is "low toxicity" or "slightly toxic", but try not to let children touch it.

3. Avoid buying electric mosquito repellent with a cute image:

The image cartoon will make children mistakenly think that it is a toy, and it is easy to have accidents.

4. Avoid using electric mosquito repellent upside down:

If used upside down, the liquid medicine is easy to seep out, and if it touches the exposed wire, it is easy to cause a short circuit (regular products have a fuse chip, and the power will be automatically cut off in case of a short circuit).

5. Try to avoid long-term plugging and dry burning:

The PTC element can control the temperature, and even if it is plugged in for a long time and burned dry, it will not cause a fire, but it will damage the heater.

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