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Accidents in the shower kept going from slipping, falling badly to stroke, stumbles objects, contact with the glass mirror. Danger always aiming in the bathroom but this place was the most frequently overlooked potential accident.
Compared to the bathroom, most people are more concerned about the dangers in the kitchen such as a stove exploded or injuries due to sharp knife cut. In fact, the bathroom was listed as the most dangerous room in the house because of the many accidents that occur.
Bathrooms can be dangerous because the water is often spilled onto the tiles. Not to mention the slick tile makes people often slip.
Many incidents of people bathing in the shower slip slippery as soap making slippery tiles increases. Often, too, the incidence of people falling when the bathroom when I wake up nights with sleep has to not alert the slippery tiles.
People can also severely injured or fall because of the equipment in the bathroom, such as nudging the mirror edges no safety, electrical shock from a hair dryer or hit the sink because the position does not fit.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US, there are about 235,000 people aged 15 years and above was referred to the emergency room because of an injury in the bathroom each year, and nearly 14 percent of whom later diponame in hospital.
Most injuries (more than a third) occurred while bathing, and more than 14 percent occur while using the toilet. The potential
for injury will be further increased with age, and reaches its peak after passing the age of 85 years.
Injuries around the tub or shower is most common in people aged 15-24 years. While people aged 85 years and over more frequently injured near the toilet.
In a report published Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report woman has the chance of injury in the bathroom was 72 percent higher than for men. The injury is mainly caused because of a fall.
"Injuries due to falls in the toilet is quite common in people aged 65 years or more. Replacing the pole handle on the toilet would greatly help an older person, and everyone can benefit from the handle, especially if installed in the tub or shower and a place incoming or outgoing, "says the researcher, Judy A. Stevens, an epidemiologist at the CDC as reported by the New York Times.
We recommend that you do not ignore safety in the bathroom. Some steps can be taken to avoid an accident in the bathroom.
1. Prevent slipping and falling in the shower.
Use a rubber anti-slip carpet and add a safety cushion in the outskirts of the tub to prevent slips in the bath tub.
2. Avoid electrical hazards.
Water is a conductor, so you must be careful to use electronic equipment in the bathroom. Do not operate any equipment with wet hands.
3. Stop contacts of children do not affordable.
If children use the bathroom, a power jack should be closed so that the child does not try to reach it.
4. Avoid heat in the bathroom.
You do this by installing temperature control valves and pressure. If the water is too hot while bathing can be automatically set.
5. The rack and mirror in the bathroom should be in the proper position.
Do not force to make a rack or a large mirror if the bathroom area is narrow, the danger tersenggol then fall very possible that could make the injury.
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