An average of almost 9,500 toddlers a year are treated in emergency rooms for injuries involving high chairs.
Researchers writing online in Clinical Pediatrics analyzed a national database of injuries from 2003 to 2010 and found that the annual number of injuries related to high chairs increased by 22.4 percent to 10,930 in 2010 from 8,926 in 2003. Falling out of the chair accounted for almost 93 percent of the injuries.
"The most effective way to prevent those falls is to use the restraint system in the chair," said the senior author, Dr. Gary A. Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. "And supervise your child carefully during mealtime."
Slightly more boys than girls were hurt, and more than three-quarters of the injured were under 2 years old. About a third of the incidents involved so-called closed-head injuries — a form of head trauma in which the skull and dura mater remain intact but which, in severe cases, can result in physical or cognitive disability. Another third involved soft tissue damage. More than 18 percent involved cuts, and almost 9 percent broken bones. More than 86 percent of the injuries were to the head, neck and face.
While most of the children were treated and released from the emergency room, 3.1 percent were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization.
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