I have always thought that Protection caps were a stupid thing. I mean they are so difficult to get out that sometimes we end using our teeth to accomplish this unfortunate task. We end putting our mouth in bottles containing toxic substances. I have been told that you are supposed to used your hands and a piece of cloth. Protection caps just weren’t my thing. But i was about to change my mind.
One day we were watching TV in my flat with my wife while my 2 year old son was walking around the house. We were checking on him , I swear but somehow we got distracted for a moment. My son wasn’t in the living room anymore. We immediately looked for him and found him in the kitchen. He had a bottle of bleach in his hands and the lit was off. My wife keeps the cleaning equipment under the sink. There is a cover without lock. We instantly panicked thinking he had drunk some. I instantly and without looking, put the cap back onto the bottle and put it away. I told my wife to prepare milk for the child to give it to whim while we were on our way to the hospital. We got the car, our son and the milk and left the house.
I have never been more scared in my life. My wife gave the milk to the baby and we finally arrived. We explained the situations to the doctor who asked us how much he has drunk. We didn’t know and the baby had no symptoms. They told us to give him more milk because he wasn’t showing anything that would indicate that he was uncomfortable. They were monitoring him all the time and we stayed there for hours but nothing wrong happened. We returned home relief. Just in case, my wife stayed all night looking after him. The next morning we woke up very late. It was Sunday and we were tired. After breakfast I was curious to about the bleach. I was surprised when I opened the lead. There was a protection cap there that impeded the bleach to get out of the bottle. I felt so relieved that nothing wrong happened to my son. At the same time I felt very stupid, lucky but stupid. My wife reminded me how lucky we were because I hate Protection caps and I always put them away. Luckily I don’t do the cleaning otherwise I would have taken that cap out. Now I know why they put there that kind of caps. There is a reason for it. I know it sounds kind of silly but I learned the hard way.