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When Alicia of Mental Health Notes showed me this video of a 6-year old saving a drowning friend, I realized how important it really is to teach our children water survival techniques. The American Red Cross wrote a comprehensive list of water safety tips for children, from pools, lakes and rivers, ocean, water parks, […]
School is almost out, the sun is shining hot and the beaches are begging to be filled. Yup! Summer is finally here!
But before you head out for the beaches and pools, Protect-a-bub has something special for Kids Health Notes readers. Protect-a-bub makes the best sun protection products on the market for infant and […]
Unlike other contact sports such as ice hockey, gymnastics is not thought of as a dangerous sports. But a new and first-of-its kind study found just how risky a sport gymnastics can be.
Researchers from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio examined a 16-year span of data from hospital emergency rooms on gymnastics-related injuries sustained […]
Quilted crib bedding sets are staples of nursery products at many stores, baby showers, day cares and homes. Add these to soft baby blankets, crib bumpers and ultra-soft stuff toys and you could have a recipe for SIDS - sudden infant death syndrome.
From 2002 to 2004, 241 infants died from nursery product related […]
Which of these is NOT poisonous to young children?
toilet bowl cleaner
baby oil
acetaminophen
vitamins
mouthwash
The answer? NONE. All of them are considered hazardous to children when ingested. Yes, even baby oil - infants have died from getting baby oil in their lungs.
About 1 million children accidentally get poisoned by common household products. Here are some hazardous […]
“Hallelujah” was my reaction to story.
A three-year old Japanese toddler eluded death after falling through a frozen pond. When the boy’s father pulled him out, his heart and lungs had already stopped functioning. The heart didn’t start beating again until 30 minutes after into the ride to the hospital. Miraculously, the boy recovered six […]
A bad thing happened today on my way out the door… I fell down two steps and sprained my foot. Yeah, major ouch!
My family immediately rushed to my aid and started pulling me up. Good thing I remembered my first aid training! NEVER MOVE AN INJURED PERSON. Moving would have caused more injury, since we […]
Since the cold season began, my daughter probably has had more than ten episodes of nose bleeding. She has been such a trooper and already learned to keep an tissue-covered ice chip on her nose bridge without panic.
Still, It’s a scary thing, for both parents and child, to see blood gushing out of her nose.
So […]
More than half of children who die during fires are asleep… and having a working smoke alarm at home is a fire safety measure for every family.
But this video would send chills through your spine.
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Watch as the children sleep through the smoke alarms! The experiment has the alarms blaring for 3 minutes and the […]
Two boys, one Saudi and one Turkish, will swap homes four years after a hospital gave them to the wrong parents, a Saudi newspaper said Wednesday. [Reuters]
The Turkish father claimed that his son wasn’t his but authorities didn’t believe him until DNA tests confirmed what he feared. The father of the other child didn’t see […]
Health matters for children from infancy to adolescence.
Written by Grace Ibay, M.H.S. [email] for b5media.
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