Domestic accidents: the right steps
What unspeakable joy of seeing his son or daughter grow up! It’s a real pleasure for all parents to observe their child while he starts to get up and walk. What a pleasure when his eyes light up in front of every new thing, the fact that he is intelligent because he is interested in everything. Yet the first steps of your child’s life can also become a source of many worries: curiosity, ignorance or neglect are likely to engage in life-threatening!
But your child is he the only one responsible? Prevent a domestic accident, whether it is doing everything in its power to protect her child. The following can by no means an exhaustive list of precautions because each situation differs from one family to another, from one place to another and varies with age of the child. But the advice listed below may affect you. Read them, they will be helpful. If some points seem inappropriate to you, please ask your doctor, fire or poison control center.
Try to understand your child!
If we adults have acquired the notion of danger, children, meanwhile, have unfortunately no idea of the risks involved in opening a bottle that looks like a soda, wanting to see what’s in placed a pot on the stove or playing with an electrical outlet. Domestic accidents that occur between one and seven years are unfortunately not confirmed this ignorance. They are the leading cause of infant mortality. This is why you parents have to take all necessary measures to prevent a domestic accident occurs. For this, the first thing to do is to try to better understand the personality of the child. Is it particularly turbulent, agitated? Does it by provocation? Is there a daredevil or just curious? The knowledge of his character and his reactions must get you to meet with a psychologist or consult your pediatrician to determine why it does so. Maybe he just needs more presence, more affection? Sleep may be insufficient, its stimulating games unsuitable for their age? In short, many questions as you need to know to solve the possible reactions of your offspring is a necessary condition for avoiding a domestic accident.
Check all high-risk circumstances
Then you have to ask you if you yourselves are organized enough to avoid accidents. By answering yes or no to this little questionnaire, you can easily judge what you have to do!
1 – The cabinet that contains detergents, bleach, etc.. is it locked?
2 – Do you have a detergent or a toxic substance in a bottle that is not original?
3 – Are all medicines stored in one and the same place?
4 – The medicine cabinet is it working with a child?
5 – How high are your windows? The bars of the balcony they are passable, a child can pass between two bars?
6 – Are your windows fitted with guardrails?
7 – Do you smoke? If so, where do you put your lighters or matches your?
8 – Do you have a garden? Y do you barbecue?
9 – What’s in your apartment or in your home as a source of heat? Are they easily accessible?
10 – When you give your child a bath, get your phone answering machine?
11 – Do you have a pool? Is it forbidden to your children when you are away?
(The answer “no” once selected, could refer to technical answers (safety standards) or illustrations to show what to do).
Teach prevention
Prevention generally responds to many gestures conditioned. This requires that you teach your child because, for him, everything is about the game
This teaching does not happen overnight, but as far as to mental and physical development of the child because the risks change during growth.
When to cross: Explain that long has to stop and look left and right before going to the other side of the street. Make him understand that he must cross at crosswalks. Lead by example. This is very important. If you do not make yourself what you tell it to do, the child believes that the limit that you set is not real, it can be broken!
When there is a machine nearby (spinning wheel, belt, etc..), Explain how it can be dangerous for him. Ask him to depart, but do not deprive yourself of the show.
Adapt prevention measures around you.
Having a child does not stay at home, to “overprotect” by removing external risks. You parents must be vigilant when you entrust someone else or when you take her friends. Tell them simply that you stay alert to safety rules. You can then ask them to put the appetizers, especially peanuts, high enough so that your child is not tempted to play with!
What to do if something goes wrong?
Despite all due care and precautions, it may be that you are facing a domestic accident. In any case, do not panic! The panic is making gestures that can aggravate the situation in case of injury by object or liquid poisoning, spread of the child causing the problem to avoid suraccident. Supervise your child while you call in an emergency (at Smur in the hospital, your doctor or Poison Control Center ). These specialists will give you the initial advice, until help arrives.