Four minutes or less of child safety guidelines is what most parents are getting these days from healthcare professionals. It seems that in a study where 140 people were surveyed what they were trained on at Pediatric Primary Care Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, 75% say that childseat safety was discussed. However less than 25% of parents were told about baby gates and bath thermometers.

With safety being discussed just 3.7 minutes on average, it seems like many parents are going home without the knowledge they may need. Granted, there were no safety talks years ago, and the hazards were much more, but I hear of silly accidents in which a child was injured for no apperent reason other than parental fault. It is said that most car seat injuries occur from improper instillation of the seat, rather than the seat itself.

To read more about the safety statistics: http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060501-121219-7636r

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized, To Help You Out.