Michael Frogel: Choking and Suffocation prevention, we talked about sudden infant death syndrome, but again I can't emphasize enough, children choke on food all the time, grapes, raw carrots, apple chunks, anything that's about that big, that can cover your airway is very serious. Popcorn, the little balls in size sometimes creates problems.
Hot dogs comes in circle, peanuts, peanut butter, balloons, curtain rods. Do you have a curtain rod in your house and it is looped like this, in a loop, the children can get caught in it, they may jump on it, it maybe high and there are big strangulations, unfortunately.
Children also have -- older children have suffocated from wearing hoods and straps that the hoods tie with. My wife is a teacher and she told me a child went down a slide at a school and got choked by the strap they were wearing around their neck, because it got stuck on something, and it was niff there.
You have to be very careful with those magnets, these little magnet toys if one -- you swallowed two of them, they can get stuck between a piece of bell and that can bellow can die and then you have a catastrophe on your hands. This happens every United States, any little tiny toy, magnet toys should not be used by little children. Extremely dangerous.
Just to get the toys, I could tell you don't buy toys from China, but I won't be so extreme, but be very careful that any toy that was recalled, make sure before you buy something, buy it from somebody reputable, don't go to a used toy store. They may not have pulled off the leaded poison toys from China or one that had actually a medication that can make you extremely sick, which was in recently in one of the toys. In last weekend, of course the death from toys is swallowing little pieces, when it says on the box, not for children under three. If you buy it for your three-year-old and they are sitting alone in a room with your nine-month-old and your two-year-old who is going to choke on it, that's not okay, alright that needs supervision.
But listen to what it says in the box, there is actually a device which can measure the size of a toy, to see if it will cause your child a big problem. If you don't have one, you can take a roll of toilet paper and if it falls right through there, that's top small, okay, it needs to be bigger than that for kids under three or four.
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