Do not leave children alone in a car! Three tips to prevent children from heat injuries!
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- Update Date:2020/07/20
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Hot, stuffy summer weather often makes the temperature rising quickly within a car. Young children are sensitive to changes in temperature, the Health Promotion Administration would like to remind parents to stay alert when carrying young children in a car, do not ever leave the young children alone in the car’s back seat even temporarily as the high temperature in a confined space could cause heat injuries to young children (such as dehydration, heat syncope, heat stroke, etc.).
How to prevent children from heat injuries in cars: 3 protection tips
Three tips on the prevention of heat injuries to young children: Check the back seat when getting out of the car, keep the car keys in safe place, contact immediately if the child fails to turn up as usual.
1. Check the back seat when getting out of the car: getting in the habit of opening the back door when you get out of the car, check the back seat to make sure you didn't leave the child in the car.
2. Keep the car keys in safe place: after parking, get in the habit of locking the door, put the keys at places unreachable to children. Educate the child not to play hide and seek in the car.
3. Contact immediately if the child fails to turn up as usual: ask the teacher to inform you if the child takes a school bus but did not turn up at the nursery at the usual time. If the child did not return home or to the care-taker's, contact the teacher of the nursery immediately.
The Health Promotion Administration would like to remind you that if you notice yourself or a family member's body seems to have signs of heat illness, for example, rising temperature, skin turns dry, hot and red, heart beating fast, or have symptoms such as unable to sweat, dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, and mental confusion, cramps, black-out, you must move away from the high-temperature environment quickly and try to lower the body temperature (such as loosen your clothes, wipe body with water or cool it with fan etc.), drink slightly salted cold water or diluted electrolyte drinks, then go to the hospital as soon as possible.