Saturday, January 12, 2013

How to protect your child from injury?


The most important is the prevention of injury.

Because of curiosity and research in the first years of life children in their own homes find themselves in various dangerous situations when they can be harder to hurt. Here are some tips on what to think about all when it comes to the safety of the child and that all parents can take to prevent injuries of children in the home.


The most important precaution is to know in advance where they are and what kids can hurt you, and to take measures to ensure adequate safeguards to prevent this from happening.

How to make a home safe for children

Children in the home care of almost everything, hence the myriad of places that they can be hazardous.Many of the things around you look different than adults, they want to explore, discover, and especially interesting to them what they are defending. The most common causes of injury to children in the home are falls, burns, suffocation, poisoning. In the first months of life, babies are turning from the abdomen to the back and vice versa, and changing the position, they can easily roll off the flat surface, so it must be under constant supervision. A young child should not be left only to the surface for changing, or in bed without raised safety ogradice.Bebu always put in a safe place until you do something, or in bed, or on the floor, just not on the table or piece of furniture with which to roll away and fall. When the chair or hammock, make sure to always firmly linked and do not leave your child unattended because it can slip off the deck.

Security measures for falls

From the moment the child begins to learn to walk, you have to protect all surfaces that could be hit. It is necessary to protect the edges of furniture, especially tables, and care should be required to put all the sharp edges, any such desks, TV stand, page edges of the bed. Children's furniture should not have sharp edges. If there is, and will be sure to set the appropriate protection for the child. Is mandatory for the protection of electrical sockets, which protects children from electrical shock. Protection should be given to all sockets that can be accessed by children. Children should never be left alone on the stairs. As the child would not have fallen down the stairs, set security door. A child from an early age never to leave only in the bathroom, sliding from falling protect it so that when you use a rubber bath mat. Bathroom floor must be dry and at night going to the bathroom child must turn on the light. Keep all detergents, shampoos, lotions and bath away from children.

Keep children away from windows

Over half of them end up in the hospital with injuries after falling from a window, which is why many suffer serious injuries. Young children are curious and do not understand the risk, so never leave them unattended with the window open. Even for a few seconds. If children are in the vicinity would be best if the windows are closed and zabrtvljeni.Treba ensure that children do not have access to windows, so to remove the furniture that can climb. Not bad either install special protections to prevent children to open the window. Make sure that the furniture in the room dječoj not close the window.

How to prevent burn injury

Be careful when you open the oven door, and the child was nearby, because the hot air can burn. When cooking dishes always turn the handles to be unavailable, and dishes in which something is cooking, I always put in the middle of the stove or oven, never on edge. Keep your child away from irons included.Beware of fat that is spilled in the kitchen. Immediately clean them because they can diffuse away, get in touch with lighted stove and electric cables zapaliti.Produžne remove it would not be close to the bathroom djeci.U hold heaters and electrical appliances away from bathtubs, showers and sinks.

Prevent the risk of drowning and poisoning
A child should never be left unattended in a bathtub or the bathroom, or in a baby pool. Make sure you do not leave medication at your children, keep them in a box on top of the invisible place. The same is true for a variety of liquids and sprays that keep the house clean, because the activists if they are in range to try them out of curiosity, especially in the first months of life when the mouth everything in their path. Also remove all the children away from small items such as coins, jewelry, small toys, children as they are not swallowed. Young children should not give small candies, candy and the like because it can also be the cause gušenja.Opasne are various ribbons, trimmings, cords, for which the child will reach out of curiosity, so I always make sure that these and other similar smaller items away from your baby and that they can not touch. 

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