Parents buy a walker in the hope that the baby will learn to walk faster. However, doctors are advised to allow kids to enjoy such a handheld device as they consider a walker dangerous and harmful. Why?
Evidence that walkers help to go faster - not. In a new article in the journal Pediatrics doctors ask parents to opt out of the use of this device.
Statistics of the US National Children's Hospital, said that over the 30 years of their practice more than 230 thousand children up to 15 months were admitted to the emergency department due to injuries related to the use walker. The fact that a walker in appearance - rugged construction. In fact they are unstable: Easy to roll over and capsize.
The doctors say that walkers are bad for physical development. From the point of view of physiology, while the child did not go, his spine is not ready for vertical walking. Using the walker is fraught with irregular gait, the risk of developing flatfoot and curving ridge.
They also affect the mental development kids. The walker children move too fast. But coordination and attention do not manage the steps, since it is not developed sufficiently.
Even more surprised scientists by the fact that more than half of parents whose children have laid a walker on a hospital bed, aware of their danger. And 32% of them continued to use after discharge from the hospital.
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