Mom’s Daily

I found this page on the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Singapore.  They have listed out cases of babies and children getting into home accidents and  being hurt and severely injured.

Many times, parents are not aware of the dangers lurking in the house.  Though we have warned parents not to use the sarong cradle or baby walker, many moms still asked for real life stories to convince their elder folks to ’scare them off’.  We do not often read about news like these in the media because most parents whose children were already injured or died should not be subjected to further trauma of media exposure.

Therefore, I hope parents and parents-to-be can gained some enlightment from these real life stories so that they can be more careful and work hard to avoid accidents like these.  I would like to copy a few pertinent ones here.  Do surf over to KK website for more information:

 SARONG CRADLE

A 3-month-old baby sustained head injury when his sarong cradle gave way. He fell to the concrete floor and the metal fixtures attached to the sarong cradle gave way and landed on his face, causing some facial contusions as well.

BURNS AND SCALD 

A mother was preparing the bath water in a sink to clean her baby’s buttocks. Unnoticed by her, the older 5-year-old brother had turned on the hot water tap of the basin. She placed the baby into the hot water without testing the temperature of the water. The baby sustained severe scald burns on his buttocks and legs. She required prolonged stay in hospital.

INGESTION OF PARACETAMOL

A 2-year-old was found with a bottle of children’s paracetamol almost empty and some of the medication in her mouth. She had obtained the pink bottle of sweet tasting medicine from the fridge. She was treated for suspected paracetamol overdose. Ingestion of more than 150 mg/kg of paracetamol can be toxic and can cause liver and kidney damage.

I must applaud KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital for the excellent maintenance of their website which is full of useful information for the public.  I hope more of our local hospitals will do so as a community service.  Even our local Health Ministry fell short of this role.