Green Daily

While we are all used to the lead recalls for toys by this point, here's a new and especially scary one. U.S. officials have recalled 4.2 million sets of Aqua Dots, also sold under the name Bindeez, recommended for ages four and up. The toy was recently put on Wal-Mart's top 12 Christmas toy list. I haven't seen these myself, but apparently, kids arrange the beads into patterns and then spray with water to fuse the pattern together. Ok, got it.

Except that the toy's coating contains a chemical, that once metabolized by the body, converts into the toxic "date rape" drug known as GHB (gamma-hydroxy butyrate). GHB in low doses causes euphoria, according to CNN's Sanjay Gupta, but in higher doses can cause people to become comatose, have seizures or become hypotonic (where one's muscles become flaccid).

In the U.S., a two-year-old boy swallowed several dozen beads and fell into a coma. He has since recovered. In another incident, a child fell into a coma and was hospitalized for five days. It is still unknown if that child has made a full recovery.

Here are the full details from the Consumer Products Safety Commission.