Keep Children Away From Candles
Candles are part of the holidays. You want to be careful with them with little kids around.
One of the big concerns, said an Emergency Room doctor, is their pajamas.
" It's important," said Dr. Kristin Harkin, and emergency room doctor at North Central Bronx Hospital. " When you're shopping and looking at pajamas for children, especially kids under the age of 14, it's important that the PJ's are flame resistant. If the parent can't find flame-resistant pajamas, at least find ones that are snug-fitting. The reason for that is if a child walks by a candle or gets too close to a candle, and they're wearing something that's loose around them, it's more apt to catch fire. If the PJ's aren't snug-fitting, the air gets between them and the fabric and it actually helps the fire grow and ignite.
" So make sure you pay attention to the flame resistant label and make sure your child's pajamas are snug fitting."
Another thing is to make sure you never leave the room when your children are around lit candles.
For more information:
www.sullivanuniforms-flameresistant.com
Comments: 1
I never had candles in the house when the kids were small. I had flashlights, and even used them on Christmas, to pretend that Santa Claus was coming.
As I got older, I went thru a phase of using candles, but was always very careful with them.
Now, I keep a few in the house, but never use them.
They use to use a chemical in pajamas that was suppose to be a flame retardant, but I think it was unhealthy, and was removed. Not sure about this, but I think I remember something about this issue.