Parents still underestimate the danger of window blind cords
When it?s time to baby-proof your home, chances are, you think immediately of electrical sockets, bumpers on sharp-edged coffee tables, and gates at stairs. Unfortunately, window blinds and the dangling cords that adjust their height tend to be far down the list?if on it at all?and the results are often heartbreaking.
According to a new report from the journal Pediatrics, more than 16,000 children in the US were treated in emergency departments for injuries caused by window blinds between 1990 and 2015, an average of almost two children every day. Most of the kids? injuries were not severe (93%), but during that time, 271 children died.
Part of the problem is that many ?parents are not aware the strangulation dangers of window blind cords (even the inner cords, that can be hard to see) as well as how curious children can end up in trouble within a matter of minutes,? says Gary Smith, one of the study?s coauthors and director for the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
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?Some parents may simply think that the risk is small and it will not happen to their child,” says Smith. “As ...
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