According to figures provided by the Government, each year approximately two and a half million children die from accidents at home. Fortunately, according to the ‘U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission‘, we can prevent them by taking the following measures:
1. Use locks on the doors and drawers kitchen cabinets, bathrooms and other rooms that may contain substances or dangerous objects for your little one.
2. Avoid at all costs that your child has access to knife or any other sharp object.
3. Use safety gates on stairs (better known as traps) to prevent access to them and avoid falling.
4. Install other security doors to rooms where children cannot access.
5. Install protectors knobs on the doors, which helps infants not enter places with potential dangers.
6. Use barriers or safety nets in windows, balconies, terraces and other. This will help prevent dangerous falls, especially if you live in an apartment or if children are found in the upper part of the house.
7. Use outlet covers that are hard to get for the kids and have an adequate size to prevent, or remove them if they are any loose, thrown in the mouth and get stuck with them.
8. Use corner protectors and corners to prevent damage from falls.
The approximate cost has to be used for each item of child protection to be used in the home to protect the children.
Also, other tips are to prevent them from poisonings, burns, and drowning. In all cases, it is important that adult children are pending. But it also must perform previous activities.
Any action we take to care for any child living at home is a way to keep them safe and avoid you regrets situations.
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