for children
The consultant pediatric and intensive care of newborns at King Khalid University Hospital, Dr. Badr Hassan Sabih, said that the use of walkers at home is one of the causes of child injuries, especially in the first three years of life. These injuries may be serious or fatal, God forbid sometimes, and there is a large percentage of children with disabilities in hospitals as a result of exposure to home injuries.
He added that many mothers, especially in our society, use gaiters for their children, due to two main reasons ..:
The first reason is that they believe the treadmill helps the child to walk early.
The second reason is that they are busy with household chores and thus trying to keep the child away from their places of work in the home, especially the kitchen, especially if the child loves well.
Through international studies and scientific research, it has been scientifically proven that the walkers lead to a delay in walking in children and do not help it, and there are also studies that prove that children who use walkers walk on the toes of the feet instead of the feet when they walk without a walker, in addition to this serious and deadly household accidents in Some times that result from the use of walkers, on top of which the child falls from the stairs while he is on the treadmill, which often leads to double fractures, concussion or bleeding in the brain, which may lead to permanent disability or death, God forbid, despite all these scientific warnings from The use of walkers, except that approximately one million walkers are sold annually around the world. However, there are some scientifically advanced countries that do not find these walkers sold in children''s play stores or child supplies. He advised dr. All mothers are accused of not using treadmills to keep children safe.
