By JCPRESS
National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan (NCAC) announced on April 6 that the drink by mistake accident had reached 500 or more every year among accidents of the child of less than ten years having been drawn by 20 nationwide hospitals in the past five years or less.
There were a lot of drink by mistake accidents of "Cigarette" and "Pharmaceutical" by less than one years old.
The fatal accident has occurred, too.
According to the examination of NCAC, the drink by mistake accident, excepting the drink by mistake of food accident, of the child of less than ten years drawn by the cooperation hospital reached 2,714 between fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2004 (at the time of of the end of January in 2005).
There were a lot of accidents from 0 to 1 years old. The top of the cause of the accident was a cigarette.
The accident of the drink by mistake increases rapidly after 5-6 months after one's birth pass.
Because the child who passes after one's birth 5 or 6 months takes the mouth the foreign body gripped by the hand.
Even if it is early, the age that comes to be able to distinguish food and the foreign body for the child is after for six months years old.
Moreover, danger that the foreign body enters from the mouth to endotrachea increases.
Because the breath frequency of the child is more than that of the adult, and child's respiratory passage is open long compared with the adult.
When the child drinks a cigarette, a pharmaceutical, and a chemical product by mistake, the child has danger of getting a poisoning.
The load to the body like the gastric irrigation, the endoscope, and general anesthesia increases when doctors remove the foreign body from child's body in the medical institution.
NCAC warned, "The guardians should put away the thing that seemed to enter child's mouth to the place where child's hand did not reach, and avoid a confusing usage that put bleach in the container of food. In addition, let's prevent the accident by using the toy that filled the toy safety standard and the toy that attached the drink by mistake prevention device".
NCAC emphasized at the same time, "When the drink by mistake accident happened, guardians or parents should have the child carry the child to the hospital, and receive the doctor's examination".
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National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan
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