Walmart Recalls My Sweet Love Baby Dolls; Toy May Burn Children

About 174,000 baby dolls are posted for recall after Walmart received complaints of burns and blisters to the user's thumb, notes USA Today.

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) posts that the baby doll recall is "due to burn hazard." Apparently, a circuit board in the dolls' chest can reportedly overheat which causes the surface of the My Sweet Love and My Sweet Baby Cuddle Care baby dolls to get awfully hot.

The CPSC report notes that Walmart, which has exclusively distributed the dolls in the US since August 2012 until earlier this month, has received 12 incident reports with regards to the doll. Two out of the 12 reports allegedly included burns and blisters to the thumb of users.

For $20, consumers get the 16-inch electronic baby doll dressed in a pink floral outfit with a pink knit hat along with a toy medical check-up kit consisting of a stethoscope, a feeding spoon, a thermometer and a syringe.

According to the CPSC, the doll's electronics which includes the circuit board, is responsible for the baby's "babbling," signaling the child that she is sick. The doll also flushes red and coughs, symptoms which reportedly disappear when children use the devices that are included in the medical kit.

"'My Sweet Baby' is printed on the front of the clear plastic and cardboard packaging. The doll is identified by UPC 6-04576-16800-5 and a date code which begins with WM. The date code is printed on the stuffed article label sewn into the bottom of the doll," posts CPSC.

Those who have the dolls are advised to immediately take them away from children as well as remove batteries. CPSC says that the doll can be bought to any Walmart store for a full refund.

My Sweet Baby and My Sweet Baby Cuddle Care are made in China under Tak Ngai Electronic Toys Co., LTD. The manufacturer also makes other dolls which are also sold by Walmart.

"We haven't discussed future business with the supplier, but they have been extremely cooperative in this entire process," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Dianna Gee said in the USA Today report.