Kids And The Trouble They Get Into

[Dave Hounddriver]

My 8 month old son is watched constantly.  Yet, as soon as your eyes are off him for a second he goes to the nearest electric wire and tries to bite it.  I have had lots of kids and never known one to do this before.  Its an obsession with him.

 

In Canada, years ago, I lost a favorite dog to that same thing.  She went behind the freezer, bit the plugged in electric cord and died.  I don't want a child doing the same thing but it is going to be impossible to keep him away from every electric wire until he fulfills his curiosity and bites into one.  (Teething = sharp teeth)

 

I'm trying to think of something I can use to coat an electric wire that would leave a horrid taste in his mouth and then make him bite it.  Perhaps that kind of aversion therapy would work.  Anyone with other ideas or an idea as to what I could coat the wire with?

[Old55]

Toddlers can be a real handful to keep safe. I take it your son has enough chew toys to distract him from the power cords? 

There is an inexpensive product called "techflex" that you could place over some of the easy to reach power cords. I use it in my hobby all the time.

 

I agree with you about the aversion (spelling?) therapy but I bet your wife isn't going to allow that. :no:

 

http://www.parts-express.com/brand/techflex/299

Edited July 13, 2013 by Old55

[lyno 47]

Hi Dave not the same deal but my youngest son kept chewing his fingernails there was a product I purchased from the chemist that I painted on his fingers,it stayed for hours and was the worst tasting stuff it cured him in a few days.I am not sure how it would work on cables but it sure worked on fingernails. :cheersty:

[Thomas]

Anyone with other ideas or an idea as to what I could coat the wire with?

None more than the allready told,

but you can use what my parents had when they needed to rest their watching a bit. Translator tell it's called "Baby's playpen", a (foldable) fenced area 1,5x1.5 meters or so. Enough space for the baby to play, but not enough to get proper crawling exersise, so don't put him there all the time  :)

Or perhaps you can have just a low door gate, which other than the baby just step over, if you can secure the wires in one room.

 

I don't know about babies, but if a grown up/teenager get a electricity hit from 220 V WITHOUT touching something grounded (as e g a pipe or a washing mashine) at the same time, so the electricity don't go through the body, and don't have heart problem, then you don't die by such hit, it just hurt much for a rather short while, not even need to go to hospital. I know, because I got such hit in a hut in the dark once, when I were a teenager   :)   

[Dave Hounddriver]

because I got such hit in a hut in the dark once, when I were a teenager

 

Its just an instinct, but I have a feeling 220v through an infant's mouth would be as fatal as the 110v through my dog's mouth that I wrote of.  But glad to hear you survived the incident.  I have similar tales as I am sure other's do, but I have never had more than a 9 volt battery touch the inside of my mouth and that was pretty rough as I recall.

[Thomas]

 

because I got such hit in a hut in the dark once, when I were a teenager

 

Its just an instinct, but I have a feeling 220v through an infant's mouth would be as fatal as the 110v through my dog's mouth that I wrote of.  But glad to hear you survived the incident.  I have similar tales as I am sure other's do, but I have never had more than a 9 volt battery touch the inside of my mouth and that was pretty rough as I recall.

I GUESS your dog died by toughting a pipe or washing mashine with OTHER part of his body at the same time as his mouth bite the cable, so the electric went THROUGH his body.

It's extra risky in spaces as bathrooms, kitchen and washing mashine rooms, because there are things which risk to let electric go trough your body, while in other rooms your body probably just tough wood, plastic or stone, so the electric will mostly just pass through the hand or mouth, which tough the not issolated cable. That's why I have a RCD in my room with bath and washing mashine. (=A devide which break the electric, when it feel some suspicios change in the electric cable going there.)

 

BUT when have small kids, then the electric contacts in all rooms need to be a safety type, so the smallest kids can't put one finger from each hand in one contact hole each making the electric go through their body then too.

Is it hard to find such safety contacts in RP?

[lonewolf]

did your wife have a craving for something while she was pregnate, that might account for it if he has mineral deficientcy that can be provided by chewing on wire. my nephew could smell foam rubber in somrthing no matter what my sister in law did finally he got what he needed somehow and it stopped , my sister would eat dirt by the handful with the other hand ul of cookies, until my dad who didn t believe in craving, ask my mom what it was she craved that he didn t get her, she said a beer, he got some and my sister whonwas like 2 yrs at the time suck that beer down like water and after that she quit eating dirt and she still hates beer today. its just a possibility but it could be that the child needs some mineral