Resource: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/sippy-cups-and-other-childhood-hazards/?ref=health
This article is about a child her name is Morgan. She is 20-month-old toddler and she was drinking from a bottle, sitting on the couch, suddenly she fell off the couch, crashing into a chair and felt on the floor. Her mother Jackie realized that Morgan had a broken tooth and a cut mouth, damage from the hard plastic bottle she had been drinking from. However, her mother decided to begin trained her daughter for a normal cups. She said that she never thought that a child could get hurt from a bottle .Also, the article talked about different research about the dangers of using bottle, pacifiers, and Sippy cups for the toddler, which cause thousands of injuries to the mouth and teeth every year, about more than 45,000 children under the age of three, were treated in emergency rooms for injuries related to bottles, pacifiers and Sippy cups. The American Academy of Pediatrics, recommends that children should stop using pacifiers by about 6 months and transition from bottles to lidless cups by 12 months, but most of the parents are ignoring this advice. According to the article, most of the injuries about 66 percent of them were injured because of the bottles. Also, about 20 percent of children holding the Sippy cup were injured also while they are running and walking. One of the doctors in the article her name is Dr. Keim said that it is important to teach the children to drink from a normal cup. “It’s the combination of being seated while drinking that I think would reduce the risk of injury,” she said. Moreover, another study said it is important also to lookout for your children for button batteries it's also make a big problem for the toddler and infants. In the article they mentioned that in the last two decades 66,000 children and teenagers were injured because of the battery, so parents should be more aware.
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