Those of us who have intrepid children at home know how easy they are to find new ways to put themselves in danger, for example, climbing furniture and then performing complicated balancing maneuvers from them.
Well, a recent study in the United States shows that the shopping cart is an element from which many children usually fall, of which a good part of them is badly damaged.
The research says that In the United States, a child is admitted to the ER every 22 minutes for an injury related to a fall from a supermarket cart, a figure in my opinion quite high.
Most of the injuries (about 70%) were caused by falling from it, although other common accidents were crashing (with another car, with a bookshelf ...) or that the car overturns and falls on them (for example because they were up one side and they have come over).
A new US investigation UU. He finds that a child ends up in the emergency room every 22 minutes due to an injury related to those carts.
As usually happens in these cases, The most injured body area in this type of "supermarket" accidents is the head. In fact, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries in infants and young children increased by more than 200 percent in the study period.
The researchers conclude that the current shopping carts are not suitable for transporting children and, therefore, pose a risk to them. They suggest that safety standards should be improved and mechanisms introduced that prevent them from tipping over and hindering falls from them, for example by making the use of a belt mandatory when children travel in those special seats that many of them incorporate.
The truth is that, for many parents, shopping with a small child is very complicated. And while you could wear a belt while it is very baby, as soon as they are old enough to try to get hold of the things on the shelves, it is very difficult to control them in supermarkets. A good idea, which the study also suggests, is to use ergonomic baby carriers, so that the baby travels with his parents safely. However, this idea usually also has an expiration date because there comes a time when young children are aware that the backpack in which dad or mom carries them prevents them from exploring the supermarket at ease and usually show a monumental disgust at the idea to see your freedom alibi that way. For many families, the quietest way to make the purchase would be without children, but this is something that is not always possible. More and more it is becoming fashionable to have toy libraries or recreation rooms where children stay with a monitor in charge while parents buy quietly, but these rooms do not usually admit children under 3 years or who wear diapers, when the Age at which more accidents occur is just before that age.
What do you think? Have you had any kind of accident related to supermarket cars? What do you do to prevent them, besides having a hundred thousand eyes - including several pairs of them on the back of the neck -?
