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June 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Cheap thermometers could give inaccurate readings putting children at risk
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Daily Mail Reporter
09:27 EST, 15 June 2012
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11:11 EST, 15 June 2012
Parents have been warned about the sale of dangerous fake digital thermometers being offered for sale online across Britain.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized more than 400 fake digital thermometers after raids in Harrow and Oxford. Some of the fakes were being sold for as little as 99p.
The MHRA warned they could give inaccurate readings, posing a serious threat to children with potentially fatal illnesses such as meningitis.
An example of one of the fake thermometers on sale. The cheap, unapproved devices do not carry the correct safety instructions
‘It is vital that people do not buy or use cheap, unapproved medical devices’ warned Dr Nicola Lennard, from the MHRA.
The raids were launched after the parents of a young child with leukaemia used a fake thermometer they had bought online and realised it was giving a misleading reading.
The child had a high temperature and was rushed to hospital for urgent medical care.
MHRA officials says the fake thermometers have no recognised brand name and can be identified by the fact that they do not have the right CE safety markings, warnings or instructions for use.
They may also have no instruction leaflets or four-digit identification number, which would show the thermometer had been through the appropriate safety assessment.
During a UK-wide operation, the MHRA also seized a other fake medical devices from locations around the UK, including seven counterfeit Kiddicare cool pads and three counterfeit Slendertone devices that had been sold on eBay.
The MHRA is also investigating into how these products came onto the UK market.
Dr Nicola Lennard, the MHRA’s deputy clinical director, said ‘Inaccurate readings from cheap, fake thermometers could result in a delay to a child getting the medical treatment they need.
‘The MHRA is working with internet sites to ensure that fake medical devices are not sold to people, and we urge the public to report faulty medical devices.’
This can be done via the MHRA’s Adverse Incident Hotline on 020 3080 6080 or via its website.
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To Susan – I breastfed until my son was four months old, after that I bottle fed him and I can tell that there is no difference when it comes to wanting pick up a baby.
Some people should try recognize when it is or isn’t time for bottle/breast feeding debate…
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It might have been useful to show the correct CE safety markings as the picture shows a product that at least has some CE markings; how would we know the difference. P.S Susan: I bottle fed my son, had no problem waking up and don’t own a thermometer
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Good grief, Susan. This isn’t about breastfeeding, this is about sick babies/toddlers possibly missing out on much needed medical care, because parents unwittingly think a temperature isn’t as high as it actually is. Parenthood is hard enough, without eejits like you, laying the blame at the door of those who aren’t (in your eyes) “perfect”. The fact is, a parent of a BREAST FED baby, who has caught meningitis, could just as easily be in possession of a faulty thermometer, as discussed in this article as the parent of a bottle fed baby. There is a time and a place for the bottle/breast feeding debate, and this is not it.
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Babies who aren’t in skin to skin contact with their mothers find it difficult to regulate their temperature breathing and heart rate. Unfortunately sleeping with a baby when it is being bottlefed is very dangerous as the mother goes in to a deep sleep as if she didn’t have a baby, rather than the much lighter sleep of a mother who is breastfeeding. This means a lot of babies have to sleep in cots for safety and hence the need for thermometers. In the say time mothers who are bottlefeeding don’t have the hormones that make them want to pick thier babies up so again they tend to be put down a lot putting further strain on their temperature control mechanism.
If we didn’t have bottlefeeding we probably wouldn’t see thermometers as an essential for babies.
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You mean the cheap Chinese fake ones, and we wonder why this country is going under, we need to start making our own stuff to our standards, we used to be the best at everything now where just the best at importing cheap lethal stuff to make a few quid. This is lives at stake now not just Jobs and marketing .
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