Summer Safety: 8 Reasons Kids End Up in the ER—and How to Prevent It

Trampolines

My children are now adults, but trampolines were popular when they were young too. I resisted pressure to buy one and I am glad. There is no reason why any parent should get one of these for their children. Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt. Many toys and exercise devices are available that are much safer than trampolines. Broken arms and legs are bad, but broken necks and backs are horrible. Even the so called safety devices sold to go around the trampolines are pretty worthless, what if a child does a "flip" and lands on his head? Be smart and delete this reason from the list. The manufacturers and sellers of trampolines will find something else to import and sell and will not lose any profit at all. Prove to your children that you really love them.

PS I'm curious mauricio where is XX?

A Way to Help Prevent it All

This article is a true reality check... Accidents really do happen and kids get hurt. As a mom and parent I feel there's only so much I can do to help keep my kids safe, but I do feel that being able to keep in good communication with my kids can at least lower the risk. I bought my 2 kids Motorola W376s from TracFone Wireless. They are prepaid cell phones that are equipped with minutes that I have paid for in advance and have excellent call quality and service. These phones alone have helped keep me keep in touch with my kids so I know where they are and when in case of an emergency. I can't find a single reason why any parent shouldn't have these phones for their kids...and especially with there recent "Double Minutes" promotion where you essentially get 2 minutes for the price of 1, cost should not be an excuse. Safety far outweighs the cost.

Bicycle helmets

Good advice here about water, but bicycle helmets are specifically designed to reduce acceleration of a metal headform sliding down a two-metre wire, by crushing the foam of the helmet. It appears that in real accidents crushing is excessively rare; all the pictures I have seen are of helmets that have cracked, that is to say, failed. Engineers including the chief engineer of Bell Helmets also report that they do not see crushed foam, check the references on the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet. It may be relevant that heads are softer and less good at crushing foam than are metal headforms. Good quality epidemiological work (Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets. BMJ. 2006 March 25; 332(7543): 722–725. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7543.722-a. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131) finds no visible effect of mass helmet use on the proportion of head injury among cyclists. In short it is very doubtful if bicycle helmets actually offer any meaningful protection at al, and they have strangled children. Cycling is healthy, it's safe and should be safer, but helmets don't seem to offer anything useful.

legg calve perthes

i need help to help my daughther to preventr surgery

the other 7 reasons kids end up in ER

I was asking the same question as the person above until I looked further into the article...notice there are 2 pages. The other seven are:

Bike accidents

Motor vehicle-related accidents

Pedestrian accidents

Burns

Falls

Accidental strangulation

Trampoline injuries

Good to know YMCA is so diligent about child safety though- good catch!

8 reasons kids end up in the ER?

I see only 1 reason in the article -- Drowning. Where are the other 7?? Also, besides swimming lessons, consider giving parents tips for keeping their kids - and themselves safe in the water. As an aquatics director at a YMCA, most commonly when we have to make rescues of children - it is not because the child can not swim but because the child is participating in an unsafe activity in the water - and almost always the behavior was either taught by their parents, if not happening with their parents right in front of them in the water. Parents really need to be taught about what is safe, and not safe in the water.