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What can parents and those with child care
responsibilities do to prevent children from drowning?
Keeping our eyes on children is the only reliable means of
drowning-prevention. As summer rushes to meet us we
think of swimming and water recreation as a means of
cooling off. Pools, streams, and lakes can pose
unexpected hazards to young children. Young children do
not usually react to drowning by screaming and thrashing
and they can get into trouble without warning. Missouri
has many water hazards besides swimming pools. We have
slippery stream banks, muddy ponds and lakes, animal
watering tanks, and rushing flood waters during rain
storms. We had an unusually high number of drownings
several years ago - all different situations. The bottom
line is "Keep your eyes open to prevent drowning."
Linda Cooperstock, MPH, Project Director Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia
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