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ACCIDENT children in the bathroom was fairly common in America. Recorded 120 children per day who visit the hospital emergency room due to falling or slipping in the bathroom.

Children naturally have a great interest for water play. No wonder, children aged less than five years (toddlers) berlamalama home usually in the bathroom. Even if the parents off guard, let alone supported by a home security system is weak, they could steal a chance to play with running water from the shower (shower) or in the bath (tub).

Generally, parents who have children under five are always there for her baby while bathing or when to defecate (BAB) and urination (BAK).

“Every kid I go to the bathroom, I usually go with; or bowel during a squat toilet, I help hold his hand,” said Fika, a private employee who has a 2.5-year-old daughter.

Eka expressed similar narrative. To prevent children slipping in the bathroom, the mother of three sons and daughters are seeking the bathroom floor is always dry.

Likewise author Asma Nadia, in his book Our Hearts Note also reveal a glimpse feeling paranoid when your baby go to the bathroom alone. As a result, the mother of Adam, 8, and Caca, 13, is set the rules should not go to the bathroom alone when her children were still toddlers. Indonesia did not yet have complete data about cases of child accidents in the bathroom.

In fact, the dangers lurking behind the little slippery bathroom floor and the overflow of water from the shower or the bathtub. Take the example in America. Every year there are 43,000 children who had an accident due to slipping and falling in the bathroom or toilet.

Other data mentioned, about 120 children per day come to emergency hospital from the accident in the bathroom, with most 4 years of age. Data sourced from research reports published in August issue of the journal Pediatrics that, remind the parents to be wary of “danger” that potentially occur in everyday life at home.

Doctor Gary Smith and his team from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, claiming the case attracted widespread researching child slipped and fell. For this purpose, Smith and his team analyzed the data the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the U.S. Consumer Protection Commission since 1990? 2007.

There are approximately 791,200 cases of accidents in the bathroom that had befallen the children and adolescents aged less than 18 in America. Among the 97.1 percent of cases of child accidents at home, 71.3 percent of them occurred in the bathroom. The most vulnerable are children aged 4 years or less with the incidence rate reached 54.3 percent.

Fell, slipped, or tripped when washing hands or bathing in the tub most frequent cause of injury accident. About 60 percent of the incident causing lacerations (such as cut or etched) on the skin, and more than 20 percent are sprains or injuries of soft tissue lainnya.Area most often affected are the face, which is about 50 percent of all accidents in the bathroom, followed by neck and head that ranges from 15 percent.

“This is because small children tend to like to do a forward lunge. They usually also like banging his head and face, which ended with an accident such as scratched or torn,” Smith said.

In most cases, parents actually still watching the activities of these children. However, according to Smith, adult supervision of course it can not prevent 100 percent of accidents.

“Often the accident happened so quickly that parents do not even have enough time to stop,” he said.

For that, Smith suggested the importance of preventing accidents in the toilet or bathroom by placing a mat or floor mat is not slippery, both inside and outside the bathroom door. If necessary, install a low iron bars to hold your baby while in the bathroom.

“So, which remains the primary parental vigilance in monitoring. On the other hand, required redesign bathtub and shower are more secure,” said Director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine.

Well, for families with small children, water safety issues should receive more attention. In America, drowned in the swimming pool is also one case of most home accidents that befall the children.

If there is a swimming pool at home, install a security fence around it and lock it. Do not leave toys near the pool because it can make a child desperate to climb the fence to achieve the toy. Drowning cases occur not only in the pool, in a bathtub even if the child could drown, or maybe slip in the shower.

Lock the bathroom and do not let kids stay lingering around the pool or bathroom. Last year, a study also revealed cases of accidents due toddler toilet seat that number quite a lot