It is not uncommon to see children in supermarkets. However, a recurring choice of parents during their races exposes them to unsuspected dangers.
Sometimes we have no choice but shopping with your children. According to the study of Nova Child – Child and distribution Released in 2017, in 62% of cases, children regularly accompany their parents to the supermarket. However, it is not easy to manage: they must not run everywhere, touch everything and they often have to be patient.
Their behavior can even push parents to turn around. The study attests that a third of parents have already left a store because of their child, whether because of a crisis (47%), a desire to go to the bathroom (40%) or too strong crowds (32%).
To succeed in holding them in place or occupying them, many supermarkets offer children’s size caddies or carts clinging to the shopping cart. The most often used solution is to place them in the shopping seat. This height stroll often suits them pretty well. To install a child there, he must be able to hold his straight back and head, to maintain the sitting position without help. This often occurs from 6 or 7 months, but it is best to wait for it to have between 9 and 12 months for it to be very stable. Then, when it grows, it is necessary to respect the maximum load of the seat which must be indicated on the seat.
Yet this choice is not necessarily the best. If the child gets tired, he will tend to move or sag and therefore take a bad posture. A false movement can also make him lose his balance and switch. The risk of head trauma is not excluded during such a fall. A study by researchers from Center for Injury Research and Policy from Columbus (Ohio) of 2013 had listed that 530,494 children under the age of 15 had been treated between 1990 and 2011 in the United States emergency services for injuries related to caddies, an average of 24,113 children per year . In 78% of cases, they were injured in the head. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the child is well installed and always having it under surveillance.
Another more frequent risk that can affect all installed children thus is to recover microbes. The bar they grab is a real lain of bacteria, being handled all day by dozens of customers. Children wear their hands quickly to their mouths. “In most cases, fecal bacteria have been found, such as Escherichia coli which can be responsible for gastroenteritis, even sepsis in children,” says in a video A cardiologist known as the pseudonym @drtik_tok on social networks. The right reflex is therefore to clean the bar before installing the little one, with a wipe for example.