Accidents are the most frequent cause of consultation in the emergency department during childhood and adolescence. Even before the birth of his son should modify your home to make it safe for him, because during the first two years of life is home to the scene of most accidents. When they grow up, they will be more frequent outside the home: on the street, at school or in the field of sports.
a. Preventing accidents at home
1. Burns
2. Injuries caused by sharp objects
3. Electrical burns and electrocution
4. Suffocation and choking
5. Drowning
6. Poisoning (drugs, cleaning products etc.).
7. Falls and blows
b. Prevention of accidents outside the home
1. Driver Education
2. Playground
3. Pool and beach
4. At school
5. In sports
Preventing accidents at home
Burns
* When bathing your child watch the water temperature is adequate, for it is sufficient to put the back of the hand in the water and make sure it is warm. Should be used to fill the bathtub hot water mixing with the cold to get a warm stream, otherwise your child may reach into the stream of hot water and scalded.
* Make sure you never leave your child alone in the bathtub because you can choke very easily and quickly.
* Stoves and radiators must be protected so that the child can not touch them. Never allow a child to be near a roaring fire.
* In the kitchen, children should not enter because it is an especially dangerous room anyway has the habit to always use the fire closest to the wall, and do not let the handles of pans and other cooking utensils protruding burner or counter, for her son in a careless curiosity can take them and burn with boiling oil or other hot product.
* Do not drive around the house with hot liquids (coffee, tea, etc …), because his son might not want to push and be scalded to fall on the liquid being carried.
* For the same reason you should not put tablecloths on the table as they pull and can spill hot food or liquid on top.
* If you’re eating soup or something hot to not have her child, it can tip the dish, or dip into it.
* Do not heat baby’s bottle or meal in the “microwave” because the heat it produces is irregular, and may be much hotter areas than others, burning mouth or tongue.
* Be very careful with the iron when ironing monitor your child is not close, because with this appliance burns are very common.
* If you leave your car in the sun cover the carrier with a cloth so that when you put in it to prevent scalding, be extra cautious with the metal parts.
* If you walk under a hot sun cover his head to his son with a hat to avoid sunstroke and do not forget to apply a good sunscreen on exposed areas of your skin. During the summer, if you are bathing, do not forget to apply sunscreen often because the water is removed from the page piel.Inicio
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