To not take dd to a&e after handling ant bait box

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To give context.

We've had an ant problem, so bought a couple of enclosed ant bait boxes. One placed on kitchen work surface and the other placed outside on our living room balcony ( there is a tiny hole in the wall next to the balcony door that they pass through). There was a fair few of them in the living room early evening, so I moved the box inside next to the hole about 7pm, before dd (18mnths) went to bed (DH not at home). DH came home at 12.30 ish and noticed ant box missing from balcony, I said I moved ant box inside, but it wasn't where I said it was, DD had picked it up and placed it next to TV.

DH has taken DD to A&E. I think he is overreacting and I've stayed at home. It is an enclosed gel (sumithrin) bait box, DD would have played with the box about 5 hours ago. She has been bathed, teeth cleaned etc, showed no signs of any adverse reaction to the gel, sleeping soundly. I think most likely she hasn't even come into contact wit the gel inside the box.

AIBU or DH? WWYD? DH and I aren't getting on very well, I find him irrational and difficult to deal with so would appreciate an objective view of this situaion.

Thanks all. DD is fine. My update from this morning didn't post. My DH husband gets a bit panicky, whereas I'm the complete opposite and may not bother seeking medical advise when perhaps I should. I should have waited until after DD had gone to bed to place the bait near their entry point under skirting board.

Up until Sunday we had tried cumin, salt, vinegar, bicarb and peppermint oil. Has helped, but DD keeps chucking food round the floor, which isn't helping, nor is the fact that work surfaces/dishes are left unclean for a while (that would be another thread entirely). On Sunday there were hundreds marching through as DH hadn't screwed the lid on the honey (FFS he's bloody left it like it again today and there's another army of them in the kitchen).

We've used polyfilla three times on the hole, and they've dug through it twice. Now there's another hole on the other side of the door. Will fill it in tomorrow. I thought the baits had worked, but now they've been at the honey, it doesn't look like it.

Op poor you I hate ants we have had them in the conservatory for years. All the houses here have them. Such a bloody nightmare.

Glad your dd is ok. To be fair i have had a share of panic over touching stuff when they were toddlers. Never made it to a and e but I can see the temptation for reassurance

I can't help remembering sitting in A & E with a child the same age who kept drifting in and out of consciousness after falling head first onto a concrete surface. It was well over an hour before we could be seen. Next to us was an old lady with a broken leg, clearly in horrendous pain. If someone had told me that the nurses were taken up by a child who had touched the outside of a box which contained potential poison on the inside, I think I might have been rather upset.

I use ant powder, just fill the hole and they will all die. Works every time.

Keep pets and kids away from it though.

FYI Totally unrelated to the initial advice you asked for but I'm so glad your lo is ok.

For the ants though, you need to follow their wee trail right to the nest and pour a boiling kettle over it. That will be the end of your ants problem

Not sure about the A & E bit.

For the ants mix Bicard with icing sugar, and just dust where the ants are and round your doors.

It's safe it the kids eat it.

It works because ant;s can't fart, so they take it back to the nest and it kills the whole lot due to wind..

Diatomaceous earth is safe for people but not insects too. Or the perfectly safe childproof any bait you have, of course...

NU. If a parent is worried then they should take their child in to A&E. Staff would far rather have their time wasted than a life lost because parent doesn't want to bother them.

Haffiana, bullshit they should. There's being worried and then there's a distinct lack of common sense.

YANBU.
Unless the box contained a radioactive source, your dd did not come into contact with anything dangerous. Still not a good idea for her to be playing with it, in case she did get it open, but if the box was undamaged how could she be hurt? I would have phoned NHS 24, maybe just to check but a trip to A&E seems OTT.

If a parent is worried then they should take their child in to A&E. Staff would far rather have their time wasted than a life lost because parent doesn't want to bother them

So so wrong, I've had to spend a lot of time in paeds a and e, and can tell you that staff would really really really like parents to stop bringing in children that have absolutely nothing wrong with them.
Nobody is going to die from touching a childproof box.