Keeping Your Child Safe

Most injuries that happen to children under the age of six occur in the home.
Each year, 1 in 10 Halton pre-school children will visit an emergency room and approximately 130 will be put in hospital as a result of a home injury.
The most common causes of home injury are; falls, burns/scalds, choking/ suffocation, poisonings, animal bites, and drowning.
Boys are injured more often and more seriously than girls.
Toddlers between the ages of two to three are injured more often than other preschoolers
Most injuries happen at mealtime and after work, when parents and caregivers are stressed and tired.
Injuries have often been thought of as an accepted part of growing up. They are, however, a major cause of hospitalization and death in young children.

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