Nichola and Nigel Griffiths thought their 18-month-old son Max had motion sickness, or was temperamental. Whenever they drove him away, he spent his journey in tears. He struggled, cried, sometimes to make himself sick. Too small to take treatment for motion sickness, doctors have advised parents to be patient.
It was a very hot day that they finally understood what was wrong. To prevent the child from getting too hot, his mother puts him in his car seat without his T-shirt. When it comes time to go out, the parents notice a red mark on the little boy’s back. “At first I thought it was a bee sting, but I did not find a bee in the car”, she tells Metro.uk.
“It was like putting him in a torture chamber”
The problem actually comes from the car seat. A plastic tip protrudes from the backrest and is planted in the back of the little Max on each trip. “It was like putting him in a torture chamber every time we went somewhere for two years,” the mother guilty.
“It makes me sick to think about it. I was very affected emotionally,” Nichola Griffiths told Metro. “I can’t even imagine what would have happened if we had had an accident with that point sticking into his spine,” she adds.
The brand of the car seat, Britax, recalled the defective seat and sent a new one in good condition to the family, claiming to have launched an investigation to determine the causes of the manufacturing defect.
Today, Max is no longer afraid of car trips.
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