Protect Your Childs’s Skin From Sunburn
A child's skin burns easily. All skin colors can get sunburned. Sunburns in childhood increase the risk of skin cancer later in life. Keep your child out of the sun between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. when the sun's rays are most harmful. Encourage your child to play in the shade. A hat, sunglasses, and lightweight clothes that cover his or her shoulders, arms, and legs will help provide protection.
Use sunscreen (at least 15 SPF) to help protect your child's skin. Rub plenty onto all bare skin about 20 to 30 minutes before going outside. Reapply every 2 to 3 hours and whenever he or she has been in the water.
Child-Proof Your House
Your child can open and reach things now that he or she could not before. It's time to child-proof your house again. Here are some child-proofing tips:
• Bolt or strap tall or heavy furniture, such as dressers, flat panel TVs, or TV cabinets, to the wall from the top.
• Keep furniture away from windows so your child can't climb up and fall out.
• Install window locks so frames will not open more than 3 inches from the bottom or top. A window screen will not protect your child from falling out.
• Cover all electrical outlets, even those behind chairs and tables, using child safety outlet covers.
• Keep cleaners, poisons, nicotine vials, tobacco and marijuana products, vitamins and supplements, toothpaste, and medicines out of sight and locked up or on a high shelf where your child cannot reach them.
• Store firearms in a locked cabinet, safe, gun vault, or lockbox so they're not accessible by children and cannot be handled by anyone without your permission.
• Store ladders out of reach and don’t leave them unattended.
Drowning Dangers
Drowning happens quickly and quietly. Children can slip into water when you are not looking. Watch your child at all times when he or she is near water, whether it is a bathtub, a pool, a lake, or the beach. Water in a wading pool, hot tub, garden fountain, toilet, or cleaning bucket often attracts young children. Empty small pools and buckets and keep the toilet lid closed. Swimming pools or hot tubs should have a fence around them with a self-locking gate.
Lithium "button" batteries and magnets can be
dangerous
"Button" batteries are used in remote controls, greeting cards, watches, toys, and other devices. Your child can find and swallow them without being seen. They can quickly damage the throat and digestive system. A child who has swallowed a battery may cough, choke, wheeze, drool, vomit, or lose his or her appetite. Take your child to the emergency room right away if you think he or she has swallowed a button battery. They cannot be allowed to pass through the body. Keep products with button batteries out of the reach
of young children.
Magnets are also a serious health threat if swallowed. Keep all magnets or other products that contain magnets out of your child's reach. If you suspect your child has swallowed a magnet, contact his or her doctor or nurse
right away.