Safety Tips
When To Call A Doctor?
These are some of the conditions of when to call your doctor or seek help right away if your child has the following:
- Bleeding that will not stop
- Trouble breathing
- Blood noted in the urine or stool
- Coughing up or throwing up blood
- Persistent diarrhea and no urination for 6 hours
- Soft spot in the babies head is bulging or sunken
- Pain in the ear
- Liquid ,pus, blood coming out from the child’s ear
- Difficulty with swallowing or will not eat
- Fever of 100.4 degrees rectal if the baby is less than 2 months old
Safety Tips
Some of the things to do to keep your child safe
1. What can I do to prevent broken bones?
- Never leave a young child unattended
- Keep crib rails up to your baby’s chin at all times
- Do not use a walker. Your baby can tip over or crash through a safety gate
- Put safety locks on your windows. Your child can open a window and fall out
2. What can I do to prevent burns?
- Keep matches and lighters away from children
- Put smoke detectors in all bedrooms and the hallway. Test them every 4-6 months
- Get a fire extinguisher for your home
- Teach your child to stop, drop to the ground and roll if their clothes catch on fire
- Set your water heater at 120 degrees F
- Make the bath water isn’t too hot by feeling it (not using floating thermometer)
- Keep child away from the stove, irons, and curling irons. Turn off and unplug these things when not in use
- Turn pot handles away so your child can’t grab them
- Never hold your child while drinking a hot liquid
- Never hold your child while cooking by the stove
- Never heat your child’s bottle or food in the microwave. Some parts can be too hot.
3. What can I do to prevent choking?
- Babies and young children can choke on some foods like: popcorn ,gum, Grapes, hotdogs, Small candies (M & M), Peanuts, Raisins, Vegetable raw
- Do not give the child anything to eat that is Small, hard and round
- Cut their food to very small pieces
- Teach them to chew well
- Check all toys for small parts that can be pulled out
- Children can also choke on these items: Coins, cherry pits, small batteries, seeds
- Do not give young children toys with parts that can pass through a roll of toilet paper
- Check your baby’s pacifier for cracks and breaks. Replace it every 2-3 months
- Teach your child to put food only in the mouth
4. What can I do to prevent drowning?
- Do not leave water in pails, empty baby pools when not in use
- Always close toilet lid and put a latch on it
- Never leave your child alone near water
- Put fences around bodies of water ( pools, pond, spas)
- Teach your child over 4 how to swim
- Teach child not to go near water alone and to always swim with an adult
5. What can I do to prevent poisonings?
- Medications should have childproof caps
- Store all medications/vitamins out of child’s reach
- Never tell children that medications are candy
- Read instructions before giving your child medicine
- Store all cleaning products /poison locked in cabinets
- Keep things in the bottles they came in and not in food jars or bottles
- Do not let your child peel off old paint and eat it
- Never mix cleaning products , it can give off a poison gas which can make your child really sick
6. What can I do to prevent head injuries?
- Always put a helmet on your child for certain Sports like biking, rollerblading, skateboarding, and scootering
- Put you child in the back seat. It is the safest place.
- Always put your child in a car seat or seat belt
- If you have a passenger air bag , never put your child in the front seat
- The car seat you use depends on your child’s age. (Check with your doctor /nurse)
- Never leave your child in a high place where he or she can fall
- Place a gate to keep your child away from steps
- Locks all doors that lead to steps
- Never hit or shake your baby. Shaking can hurt or even kill you baby
Other things I can do to keep my child safe:
- Never leave your child alone in a car
- Put the baby to sleep on his or her back, not on the stomach
- Do not put pillows or any soft items in your baby’s crib
- Never put your baby to sleep on a waterbed
- Keep baby way from things that they can pull like hanging cords, drapes
- Keep all cords away from children
- Cover all electric outlets
- Teach children to never touch electric appliances while touching water
- Store sharp things away from children
- Cover all sharp corners on furniture
