Visiting relatives and friends is absolutely indispensable, many people are even more with gifts, if you encounter each other's family has children, there is a good chance that you will think of buying children's products and toys.
Advertisements for various children's products on the market are also flying all over the sky, what walkers, children's anti-side sleeping pillows, baby swimming neck rings... But are these things really suitable for babies?
Today Xiaobian will talk to you about the blacklist of children's products, some parents because they used them for their children, the intestines are remorseful...
Walker
The first thing to say is the walker, which can make the unstable baby avoid falling, automatically learn to walk, parents do not always have to bow their heads and bend down to lead the child to walk, very labor-saving, so in the country can be said to be as long as there are children of the family, basic households will be prepared with such a frame!
Not only parents buy, but grandparents and grandparents, relatives and friends around them sometimes want to buy it for their children to learn to walk, and a treasure is sold more than 10,000 a month.
But it is such a good looking children's utensils, to help children learn to walk, not expensive, but hidden in your unimaginable crisis...
According to reports, Hubei Wuhan baby girl Fei Fei just turned 7 months, the impatient mother put her into the walker to learn to walk, half a year later, Fei Fei's feet actually turned inverted deformity, became like this
A film test at the hospital shows:
Fifi's left calcaneus is dysplasia, both feet are varus, and the diagnosis is horseshoe varus deformity. The doctor gave Fifi orthopedic surgery, and Fifi's gait improved significantly, but in order to fully return to normal, she also needed to wear a brace for at least half a year.
Doctors say that a 7-month-old baby sits on a walker and his feet cannot fully land on the ground, which is why this situation occurs. In fact, there are great risks and hidden dangers in young children's walkers, as early as 2014, CCTV focus interviews were exposed.
Next, let's talk specifically about the hazards of walkers:
Damage to the baby one:
It is not good for learning to walk
Have the mothers ever observed the posture of the baby sitting in the walker: is it tiptoeing, tiptoeing slightly, just "whizzing" and rushing out of the way?
In such a position, the baby's leg strength can not be effectively exercised, and the time to learn to walk will be delayed. According to a tracking survey of babies from 5 to 15 months old using walkers,
Babies who are often used for walkers
Average time to sit, climb and walk
It's about a month later than a baby who doesn't use a toddler.
Damage to your baby two:
May cause skeletal deformities in your baby
Infants who use a walker for a long time may have developmental abnormalities: the medial sides of the knees are protruding and expanding, the two lower legs are withdrawn outwards, and the ankle joints cannot be brought together when the knee joints are close together, looking like an "X" shape; Some of the two calves are bent outwards, and when the two ankle joints are closed (upright posture), the knee joints cannot be close together and form an "O" shape, which is the so-called "circle leg".
The baby's bones contain more gum, less calcium, soft bones, and the sliding speed of the walker is too fast, the baby has to pedal forward with both legs, for a long time, it is easy to bend the leg bones to form a circle leg.
Damage three to your baby:
Or affect the child's intellectual development
Children learn to recognize objects through contact, grasping, knocking, throwing, etc., free exploration helps children's intelligent development, and walkers restrict children's free activities and deprive children of the opportunity to learn.
Studies have also shown that babies who use walkers score lower on the mental development test than babies who have not used a walker.
Harm four to your baby:
Terrible accidents
There are many moms and dads who use walkers because they think they can keep babies safe, but the opposite is true. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:
About 8,800 infants and young children under 15 months of age are born each year
Injured due to using a walker!
On December 13, 2016, a 10-month-old baby rolled down stairs with a walker, causing a fractured head.
In 2015, a woman in Suzhou put her child in a walker, and the child fell down the stairs with the car and fell into a vegetative state.
A 9-month-old baby in Xining, Qinghai, died instantly as a walker slid down stairs.
There are also some mothers who post in the circle of friends that their children were injured by walkers, revealing self-blame between the lines.
The main reasons for your baby's injury to a walker are:
Sitting in the walker, the baby can move up to 1 meter per second, the child's head is heavy and heavy, and it is exposed to the outside of the body frame, lacking safety protection, once it is overturned from the stairs or overturned due to uneven ground, the baby's head is easily injured.
Foreign countries have long been banned,
The Ministry of Health also does not recommend it!
As early as July 2004, Health Canada issued an order prohibiting the sale, advertising and import of baby walkers.
Later, the ban on the sale of walkers was enshrined in law – under the Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act, Canadians were not allowed to manufacture, import, advertise or sell baby walkers. No retailer may sell walkers, may not advertise, and parents may not resell used walkers.
If an illegal sale is discovered, a fine of up to $100,000 is imposed and 6 months in prison.
Although there is no total ban on the sale of walkers in the United States, in the 1990s, accidents occurred frequently due to children's use of walkers.
AAP (American Paediatric Association)
Called for a ban on the sale of children's walkers.
In 2011, the former Ministry of Health of the Mainland issued the Technical Guidelines for Intervention in Children's Falls, which clearly stated that
The use of a walker for infants is not recommended.
Although some people may feel alarmist, my children use a good little thing, but the old saying is good, not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, in order for the baby to grow up healthy and safe, bao moms still don't use a walker for the baby.
And children learn to walk is a natural process, no need to deliberately teach, go with the flow is better.
Children's anti-side sleeping pillows
The US CPSC and FDA warn against using this "anti-side sleeping pillow" that maintains a specific sleeping position for babies (anti-flat heads, etc.).
This pillow has caused at least 13 infant deaths in the last 15 years!
The selling point of this type of sleeping position positioner is to keep the child lying flat to prevent suffocation and sudden death by lying prone after rolling over. But it backfired: lying on the side was not defensive, the child inadvertently lay down more troublesome, the baby is best to go to the pillow to lie flat, the simpler the better, the more difficult it is, the snake is really not committed.
Hole shoes
In recent years, the popular "hole shoes" have a soft texture and are easy to put on and take off, but they are not suitable for children under 5 years old.
Since 2020, there have been frequent incidents in the United States in which children's piercing shoes have been pinched by elevators and injured their toes, with an average of four or five cases per week in the summer.
The Japanese government has also warned consumers that children wearing hole shoes are prone to being caught in the elevator. Children under the age of 5 are advised not to wear hole shoes when taking the elevator or going to the amusement park.
Baby swimming collar
Many parents take their children to swim when their children are very young, and wear such swimming collars, but such collars are not safe.
1. The baby's neck is very soft, and the collar is easy to hurt the baby's young cervical spine;
2. The neck ring is plastic, and it is clinically seen that the baby is allergic to the neck ring or the neck ring rubs excessively to cause dermatitis;
3. The neck ring is easy to compress the trachea;
4. The most dangerous thing is that people have carotid sinuses on the neck, if they are accidentally pressed, they can have a stress-inducing reflex, a decrease in heart rate, and even shock in severe cases!
The best way for babies to swim is to be held by an adult and drag the baby's hips with one side of the forearm. The other hand supports the baby's back and presses against the adult's body into the water. In the water, you can try to drag only your baby's hips, or hold your hands under your armpits, and try to make your baby feel the joy of playing with water.
Electronic music toys
In order to exercise their children's hearing and sense of rhythm, parents bought electronic music toys for their children. However, parents should first ensure that these electronic music toys do not emit the number of decibels that the sound is beyond the range that the child's hearing can bear.
Because many electronic music toys on the market have not undergone this step of testing. Excessively loud music will cause permanent and irreversible damage to the child's hearing, and may also affect the child's emotions, and in the long run, it will even make the child develop a grumpy temper.
Therefore, in the future, you will send gifts to relatives and friends to remember to avoid these "pits" ~ For the health of the baby, it is best not to use the above supplies, not afraid of ten thousand in case!
If there are people around you who don't know this, tell them quickly!