Toxicologist Esmeralda Thoma has shown how we can choose the least harmful toys for children. According to her, parents should try to find wooden or silicone toys for their children and avoid plastic toys.
The doctor has explained that the risk that plastic toys can bring is very high and she even shows that excessive exposure of pregnant women to plastic can cause serious damage to the baby.
"So even mothers during pregnancy, if they are exposed too often and in high doses of plastic, this plastic passes to the baby during its intrauterine life, causing various problems such as premature birth or spontaneous abortions. Or the birth of children with marked developments in their psychomotor development.
We must keep in mind that toys are dangerous, especially after the age of 6 months when children have the tendency to try anything. The idea is that in any case, mothers and parents try to have children play with wooden toys, but these toys should not have plastic surface coatings, and with silicone toys", said the doctor on the show "Taste of Home".