Infant car seats have saved countless young lives, but those same seats are also responsible for injuring thousands of youngsters when improperly used outside a vehicle, a new study found.
More than 43,000 infants in the United States required emergency room care between 2003 and 2007 after falling in car seats that were improperly placed on tables, counters and other elevated surfaces. Accidents were even reported after seats rolled over on soft surfaces, such as beds and sofas, the study discovered. (more…)
Carolyn M. Kercsmar, MD, the director of the asthma center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, recently had a 10-year-old patient who decided, on his own, to stop taking his asthma medicine—crucial maintenance steroids he was supposed to take regularly.