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Risk factors
A
come down
Children under 6 years old are not recommended to sleep on bunk beds!
Children's indoor falls are usually caused by "high beds".
Which ones belong to high beds? Xu Xiao pointed out that our common son-mother beds, high and low beds, bunk beds, elevated beds, half-height beds ... as long as the bed board is 0.8 meters above the ground, it belongs to a "high bed".
"Before the age of 6, the child has insufficient physical control and balance, so it is strongly not recommended to let children under the age of 6 sleep in bunk beds!" He suggested that if you have bought a bunk bed, you can let the child sleep out of bed , Wait until 6 years old before going to bed.
China's GB24430.1-2009 "Safety Standards for Household Bunk Beds" stipulates several production standards, all specifically to avoid falling. When parents buy a high bed, they should be aware of the following four key points:
Structural load-bearing: If it is a wooden material, there should be no worms.
In order to prevent children from falling over: the height of the fence around the bed should be more than 30cm away from the bed. After installing the mattress, the height should not be less than 20cm. When parents choose a bed, in addition to paying attention to whether the height of the fence is qualified, the mattress should not be bought too high. The thickness of the mattress on the upper bed should not exceed 10cm.
In order to prevent children from getting stuck in the bedside guardrail: for children under 6 years old, the width of the front guardrail and the ladder should be between 30-40cm, and the spacing between the adjacent fences of the fence is 60-75mm.
To prevent children from stepping into the air, tripping and falling: the distance between the steps of the ladder should be between 20-30cm.
However, many manufacturers and brands in China have ignored this standard and planted mines. Parents must pay attention to screening when buying. If they have already bought a high bed with risk factors, it is best to check it and take the necessary remedial measures.
Usually parents should pay attention to the safety education of their children. Climbing and jumping are strictly prohibited for beds, tables, chairs and drawers. Adults can't let it go when they are around, otherwise when children are alone, accidents will easily happen.
B
Bruise
Children aged 3-6 are injured and most often hit the sharp corners of furniture
According to the "Children's Injury Prevention Advocacy Report" released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Global Child Safety Organization in 2012, one of the main sources of injury for children aged 3-6 is the sharp corners of furniture such as wardrobes.
"Children are naturally moving and exploring, and running at home is common, and it is easy to hit them when running." Xu Xiao pointed out, especially objects that are about the same height as the child's head, such as door handles, table corners and sharp edges of furniture, Easy to hit the eyes.
According to national standards, the corners of children's furniture should be rounded to 10mm, the purpose is to reduce the injury after collision. Even if it is not in the children's room, you should carefully choose furniture with angular and sharp corners. If you have purchased furniture with sharp edges and corners, you can purchase protective rubber strips for corner protection.
C
asphyxia
Children bed guardrail clearance does not exceed 7.5cm
In fact, not only domestically but also abroad, there are many accidents where children's bed guardrails are too wide, causing children to suffocate. In 2016, there was a crib accident in the United Kingdom. When the baby was sleeping in the newly purchased crib, the body slid out of the bed through the wide gap of the bed guardrail (the distance between the fences was 11.5cm), and the head was caught between the guardrails, causing suffocation. According to the national standard, the gap between the guardrail of the children's bed cannot exceed 7.5cm (the baby bed cannot exceed 6cm), parents must pay attention when buying!
D
Smash
All rooms, cabinets over 80cm should be fixed on the wall
Children have a natural nature of climbing, so there are many cases of falling and being injured by furniture. In fact, in order to prevent the cabinet from toppling over, China already has safety standards. According to GB28007-2011 "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture": Cabinet furniture of more than 80cm needs to be equipped with anti-tipping connectors fixed to the wall. General big-brand furniture, in fact, are equipped with connectors fixed to the wall, but many parents ignore the instructions during installation, or simply do not want to damage the wall and do not install it, which is very unwise.
The narrow furniture of the children's room against the wall or the family space shared by the children must be fixed to the wall. If the cabinet you bought does not come with an anti-tipping device, you can purchase it online.
In addition, the falling of some small components on the furniture can also cause unexpected dangers. Children's cabinet drawers must use limited snaps, so that when children use, they will not pull out the entire drawer and hurt their hands and feet. It is best to have a baffle to prevent the cabinets at high places from falling. If there is no baffle, it should not appear above the child's head. "There are often children's room designs that place bookshelves, photo frames, etc. on the head of the bed, which is actually very dangerous. Once there is a slight vibration, something falls, it will directly hit the child's eyes." Xu Xiao said.
E
Fall
Children under 4 years old, children's room is recommended to lay anti-slip mats
Improper selection of footwear or the ground is too slippery, children are prone to slip and fall when running. Children under 4 years old, it is recommended to put a mat or carpet on the children's room, when buying socks, choose a non-slip style.
F
Respiratory tract injury
Unpainted solid wood furniture can easily become a hotbed of mold
Common children's respiratory tract injuries include acute inflammation, chronic inflammation, allergies, and asthma. These diseases are related to poor indoor air quality. The artificial pollution caused by family members, such as smoking and cooking oil fumes, is usually more serious than outdoor pollution, which depends on parents' awareness.
In addition, it should be noted that the substances released by decoration and furniture materials-formaldehyde, TVOC, etc. pose a serious threat to children's health. For example, toluene and xylene in TVOC can cause serious harm to the human central nervous system, respiratory tract and skin.
Xu Xiao reminded that due to the large area of ​​the wooden floor and the whole wardrobe, once the quality does not meet the standard, it is easy to cause the formaldehyde of the whole room to exceed the standard. In 2018, the new national standard "GB-18580-2017", E1 level requires that the formaldehyde emission of plates is less than 0.124mg / m3).
In addition, parents should test the content of formaldehyde and TVOC in children's room after purchasing soft decoration and furniture.
After the decoration is completed and the room is fully ventilated for a week, check again. Because the additives in the paint containing TVOC will evaporate and dissipate within a few days after construction, it will be more accurate to check after a week. During testing, all doors and drawers of furniture cabinets are opened, and the doors and windows of the room are closed for 24 hours before testing. The test duration lasts for one hour. The instrument should be placed in the center of the room, not inside the furniture, to avoid the impact of high local concentration. . The testing instruments are preferably both TVOC and formaldehyde.
Although the accuracy of the small-scale civilian tester is not high, it can also rule out a large TVOC exceeding the standard. Of course, it is better to find a professional testing agency for testing.
Formaldehyde and TVOC are precipitated from the inside of the plate, and it is likely that more will be precipitated after a period of use. Therefore, even if there is no problem in the first test, it does not mean that the standard will not be exceeded during continuous use. Usually, windows are often opened in the home to ventilate, especially the children's room.
There is also a point of knowledge that most parents can easily overlook: high air humidity and mold growth are the main causes of allergic rhinitis and asthma. The incidence of rhinitis in the south is significantly higher than that in the north, partly because of this.
Some parents think that unpainted furniture is more environmentally friendly and safer. In fact, it does not have the protective effect of paint. Solid wood and plate furniture in the south can easily become a breeding ground for mold, which can induce allergic rhinitis.
G
Visual damage
Buy lights in children's room, not only look at the wattage, but also the lumen
Insufficient brightness of children's indoor reading lighting is one of the reasons why children quickly form myopia and continue to deepen. According to the Ministry of Industry's Healthy Reading Lighting Standard, the reading light intensity should not be less than 300LUX (lumens). However, this value does not have a guiding sign on the packaging of most lamps and can not be evaluated. In fact, this problem is easy to solve. Now there is an illuminance measurement app on the mobile phone. Parents can download it for simple measurement and quickly check whether the reading area of ​​the child reaches 300LUX. It should be reminded that children who like to read books often hide in different corners to read books, so in practical applications, parents should prepare more lamps in the room, and do not leave the children's room with dark corners. Where children are used to reading books, there must be a reading light configuration, and the brightness of the reading area must reach 300LUX. Therefore, a high-brightness ceiling lamp plus a desk lamp in the children's room is a must.
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