Daughter’s massive cleaning fail leaves her panicked family locked in a room on the phone to a poison hotline: ‘Make sure you never do this’
- A daughter unknowingly made a potentially lethal gas when cleaning
- Samantha was cleaning the kitchen and used both bleach and vinegar
- The two chemicals should never be combined as it creates chlorine gas
- The family confined themselves into one bedroom until assistance arrived
A young woman unknowingly created a potentially lethal gas by mixing two chemicals when cleaning.
Samantha, from the US, helped her family at Christmas by cleaning the kitchen but decided to use bleach and vinegar – two chemicals that should never be combined.
Consequently, the family confined themselves into one bedroom of the home until assistance arrived and cleared the poisonous toxins in the air.
According to Healthline, bleach and vinegar can create chlorine gas – which can be harmful.
Samantha, from the US, (pictured) helped her family at Christmas by cleaning the kitchen but decided to use bleach and vinegar – two chemicals that should never be combined. To get away from the gas the family confined themselves in a bedroom until help arrived
‘My grandparents were just gassed to be spending time with us,’ Samantha (pictured) captioned the clip along with the hashtags ‘Christmas spirit’ and ‘stupidity’
In a video seen more than 18million times, Samantha detailed the eye-opening experience.
‘My grandparents were just gassed to be spending time with us,’ she captioned the clip along with the hashtags ‘Christmas spirit’ and ‘stupidity’.
‘I accidentally cleaned the kitchen with bleach and vinegar and now we’re all stuck in the same room on the phone with poison control’.
In the clip, Samantha can be seen with her family and the dog huddled inside one small bedroom with the door closed.
She also revealed the family couldn’t go outside because of a snowstorm.
Thousands were concerned for the wellbeing of the family and commented on the video.
‘This is why chemistry class needs to be mandatory,’ one person wrote, another said: ‘Nooooo!!!!! Only clean [using] one cleaning product at a time.’
But some were unaware about the dangers of mixing chemicals.
‘Wait what.. I didn’t know you couldn’t do this,’ one said.
‘Is this common knowledge or something?? Cause I had no idea,’ another admitted.
A third said: ‘Thank God I hate the smell of vinegar cause I probably would have done this.’
Only one cleaning products should be used at a time when cleaning the home – and many opt to use vinegar as a non-toxic solution.
It’s also a common natural antibacterial used to kill unwanted germs from surfaces around the home and is a suitable alternative to using harsh chemicals.
Vinegar can be used to clean several areas around the home, including toilets, floors, benchtops, laundry and showers or bathtubs.
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