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Is It Harmful For Children To Sleep In A Play Pen Smelling Of Campfire?

Hi, my father has a wood burning stove and when we visited him last we took my 4 month old daughter s play pen that she sleeps in. Now home and noticed it stinks like smoke, it this harmful for my baby to still sleep in the play pen smelling of campfire?
Fri, 5 May 2017
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Pediatrician, Pulmonology ,  's  Response
Hi.... I understand your concern. If the odour had been harmful to her, it should have been due to an allergy. If it is due to allergy she should have reacted to it at the campfire itself. So i don't think you need to worry about it now.

The smell will go off in few days.

Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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Is It Harmful For Children To Sleep In A Play Pen Smelling Of Campfire?

Hi.... I understand your concern. If the odour had been harmful to her, it should have been due to an allergy. If it is due to allergy she should have reacted to it at the campfire itself. So i don t think you need to worry about it now. The smell will go off in few days. Regards - Dr. Sumanth