Baby and Toddler safety are the actions and modifications made to keep babies and toddlers safe from accidental injury and death. Many accidents, injuries, and deaths can be prevented.
Babies begin to crawl around the age of six to nine months. As they crawl, they are exposed to many dangers. Anticipating the development of infants and toddlers helps caregivers identify hazards before they are discovered by children.
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General recommendations
US government agencies recommend that caregivers take the following precautions:
- Includes all unused power outlets with outlet plugs.
- Keep the strap out of baby's reach. Tack up cords into vertical blinds and move furniture, lights, or electronics to hide wires.
- Secure furniture and electronics, such as bookshelves and TVs, so it can not be pulled down the baby.
- Use protective pads to cover sharp edges and corners, such as from a coffee table or fireplace fireplace.
- Install safety gates at the bottom and top of the stairs or block them into unsafe space.
- Use safety hooks in cabinets and doors.
- Keep all medicines, cleaning products, and other toxins out of the reach of babies.
- Remove the rubber ends from the doorstops or replace with a one-piece doorstop.
- Search and delete all small objects. The objects that can easily pass through the center of the roll of toilet paper can cause choking.
- Keep the ornamental plants out of baby's reach. Some plants can poison or make your baby sick.
- Sets the temperature of the water heater to no more than 125 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot water can cause bad burns.
- Keep an eye on babies around pets closely. Even family pets know to hurt the children who are familiar.
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Furniture
Toddlers usually like to climb with steps. This includes furniture. Heavy furniture at home is often not secured to the wall. This piece of furniture can include bookshelves and dressers that can weigh hundreds of pounds. Heavy objects such as television that is in the furniture can also fall into the child. If a toddler climbs up the furniture, it is likely to fall into the child. It has caused death and injury to children. Even if children seem unharmed, it is possible that internal injuries occur with serious consequences. Often these injuries are unclear to the caregiver and as a result treatment may be delayed. Serious head injuries also occur.
Carers can prevent furniture-related accidents by keeping furniture to the wall. Place the heavier objects into the lowest drawer. Do not put the toys on the furniture. Continue to monitor toddler activity. Place the drawer to stop in the drawer to prevent the toddler from opening the drawer. Install flat-screen television out of reach and into the wall.
Lead poisoning
No safe level of lead in a child's body is considered safe and can cause problems for the rest of their lives. Children living in low-income families are more likely to have lead levels in their bodies. Questions about test procedures have been questioned. Children have a greater risk because they are more likely to place objects in their mouths such as those containing lead paint and absorb a greater proportion of the lead they eat. Treatment is available but better prevention.
Sleep
The bumper pad mounted in the crib has been fixed so that the baby can not be sandwiched between the cushion and the crib girdle.
Baby food safety and toddlers
Baby food security is the identification of risk management practices and disease prevention in infants. The simplest and easiest way is to wash your hands. Foods for small children, including infant formula and baby foods can contain pathogens that can make the child very sick and even die.
Sudden infant death syndrome
Sudden infant death syndrome can cause infant death and often no cause is found. There are several preventive measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of SIDS. This is:
- Lay the baby on his back to sleep.
- Breastfeeding
- Keep the mattress free of all things and instead dress the baby warm.
- Immunization.
- Use the dot.
- Using a 'sleeping bag' that prevents the baby from turning and sleeping on his stomach.
Child abuse
It is important that caregivers recognize the potential abuse of their baby or toddler. Infants or toddlers are potentially vulnerable to physical abuse, sexual harassment, psychological abuse and neglect and unable to verbally disclose details of abuse. Children's care can be a concern and occurs when the offender wins the nanny's credentials for the purpose of creating an opportunity for them to harass the infant or toddler. Infant beat syndrome can often result in serious and permanent brain damage in infants or toddlers. There are preventive measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of injuring a child in this way. Those who care for babies and toddlers can benefit from stress reduction. Being educated in normal child development can help a person understand that crying is normal for babies and toddlers, especially if they are hungry or need diaper replacement. Caregivers can contact others who are willing to give them a break. Those who drink alcohol are more likely to injure a baby or toddler. Carefully choosing others to watch babies or toddlers can also reduce the risk of injury.
Car crash
Children under 3 years of age are 43% less likely to be injured in a car accident if their car seat is placed in the center of the car. The middle position is the most secure but least used position.
Hyperthermia and hypothermia
Forget that infants or toddlers are in the car and leaving them where they are exposed to high temperatures can cause death.
Toddlers can roam and fall through the ice or be left in cold or cold weather and experience hypothermia. This low body temperature is often fatal but the event of survival after almost drowning occurs. Of all the drowning deaths in 2013, 82,000 occur in children younger than five years.
Submerged
The news has wandered and sunk in the pool. Toddlers can easily sink in a shallow little ornamental pond.
Animal attack
Infants or toddlers are more likely than other family members to be injured by animals because they can not defend themselves and are lower to the ground. Familiar family pets without a history of aggression are more likely to attack children from unknown pets than other households.
Choke
Toddlers and babies who can hold objects can choke when small objects are inhaled and block the trachea.
Babywipes (diaper napkins) can be a choke hazard
Poisoning
Fall
Even a high chair is dangerous
External links
- Caring for Children for Sexual Harassment, written by Gregory M. Weber, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin who specializes in criminal prosecutions committed against children.
- Baby-Proofing Your Home. Guidelines from the National Security Council
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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