- Keep medicines and cleaning products in containers with safety caps and locked away from children. This will prevent children from being poisoned.
- Always check bath water temperature with your wrist or elbow before putting your baby in to bathe. This will prevent burns to a baby's delicate skin.
- Never leave your child alone in the bathtub or near any water. This will prevent children from drowning.
- Don't leave your baby alone in a highchair. This will prevent injuries and deaths from the baby climbing out, falling, or sliding.
- Lock household cleaning products, knives, matches, and plastic bags away from children. This will prevent poisonings, bleeding injuries, burns, and suffocation.
Child care safety tips
Taking care of minor things like keeping medicines away from your child's reach and not leaving him alone in a bath tub can ensure your child's safety.
- Published by:1111DoctorNDTV
- Family Health
- May 12, 2010 09:10 am IST
- Published OnMay 12, 2010 12:03 pm IST
- Last Updated OnMay 12, 2010 09:10 am IST


