Preventing Bathtub Injuriesby Aimee Amodio | More from this Blogger 15 Jul 2009 10:36 AM A fall can be dangerous at any age -- from toddler to senior and everything in between. A recent study found that more than 43,000 children are injured in the bathtub every year in the United States. The bathtub can be a dangerous place. Other studies have looked at the risk of burns from hot water and drowning and near-drowning incidents. Now researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy (part of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio) are taking a look at slips and falls. Researchers looked at eighteen years of bathtub slip and fall data relating to children. An average of one hundred and twenty children are injured in the tub every day -- JUST from slips and falls. Over the eighteen years of data, that number didn't change much. Nearly eight hundred thousand incidents occurring between 1990 and 2007 were reviewed by the research team. Data came from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and included reports of injury to children age eighteen and younger where the child was seen by a doctor or at the emergency room. The highest occurrence of injury was in children under the age of two, and children four and under accounted for more than half of all bathtub slip and fall injuries studied. Cuts were the most common result -- nearly sixty percent of the reported injuries -- and nearly half of all injuries were to the face. Less than three percent of the cases in the study required that the child be admitted to the hospital for treatment or observation. Researchers were quick to point out that these injuries are largely preventable.
Learn more about Aimee Amodio  Aimee is a fiction writer... dog lover... music lover... Relevanthealth tags User Comments Samual (11722) 15 Jul 2009 12:13 PMCan you even make slip proof cast iron? James5555 (51) 17 Jul 2009 02:24 PMOn the cast iron tubs, Kohler I know adds a resin coating that is not as slippery on the bottom of their tubs. Some of the other higher priced, brand name tubs do this as well. You can also buy those stickers for the tub which work well and are not expensive. I've noticed it seems to be worse when you have slow drain and are exiting the shower/tub while there is still some water and soap residue. To Your Health! James Reno (editor) Raw-Food-Repair.com Community Tags bathtub, bathroom, bathtub injuries, slip and fall Discuss this article
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