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The consultant pediatric and intensive care for newborns at King Khalid University Hospital, Dr. Badr Hassan Sebeh, explained 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, in some cases, and there is a large percentage of disabled children in hospitals as a result of their exposure to home injuries.
He added that many mothers, especially in our society, use walkers for their children, and this is due to two main reasons:
The first reason is their belief that the walker helps the baby to walk early.
The second reason is their preoccupation with housework and thus trying to keep the child away from their busy places in the home, especially the kitchen, especially if the child is crawling well.
And through international scientific studies and research, it has been scientifically proven that walkers delay walking in children and do not help it, and there are also studies that have proven that children who use walkers walk on the toes instead of feet when they walk without a walker, in addition to the dangerous and fatal household accidents in Sometimes that results from the use of walkers, on top of which the child falls off the stairs while he is in the walker, which often leads to double fractures, concussions, or bleeding in the brain, which may lead to permanent disability or death, God forbid, and despite all these scientific warnings of Using walkers, but it is sold annually about one million walkers around the world. But there are, in some scientifically developed countries, you do not find these walkers sold in children''s toys or children''s supplies stores. And Dr. advised. Seek all mothers not to use walkers, in order to preserve the safety of the children.
