Lucknow: When a baby starts walking while sitting on a baby walker, it definitely looks very adorable, but do you know that this very baby walker can take the life of your baby and can have adverse effects on the bones of his legs. If not, then let us tell you that Dr. Vikas Verma, Head of the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, King George’s Medical University, is continuously receiving such cases in which baby walkers have seriously injured children. His bones have been broken and the bones in his legs have been affected.
When Dr. Vikas Verma was talked to for more information about this, he told that he is continuously receiving such cases in which people give baby walkers to their children. In such a situation, the child tries to run while sitting on the baby walker. While running, he collided with a table, when he went near the gas, boiling milk or water fell on him or there have been many such cases in which the baby walker overturned. In all these cases, seriously injured children have come here and been treated. In many cases, the condition of children becomes very bad. In such a situation, people are requested to avoid giving baby walkers to their children and let them walk normally on the ground.
effect on the bones of the feet
Dr. Vikas Verma told that people make their children sit on baby walkers at a very young age. It is thought that he will start walking soon but it is not so, children learn to walk only when they reach a certain age. Also, when people make children sit on this baby walker at an early age, they try to walk with the bones of their weak legs.
Baby walkers banned in Canada
Canada is a developed country. Despite this, there is a ban on baby walkers, because from 1990 to 2014, there were 230,000 cases of children under the age of 15 months in which children were seriously injured due to baby walkers. That is why after 2014, Canada completely banned the sale of baby walkers.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 30, 2024, 11:54 IST