The heat has returned and it seems that this time is here to stay, so it becomes important again to take special care with children both when going out, as when they are hydrated and in environments where They cannot spend excessive heat.
By this I mean, above all, to cars. Yesterday my son came up with the key to remove the contact while we waited at the door of the school with the car in the sun and the scarce 20 seconds that passed until I managed to recover the keys and start the car again made me sweat and make me feel without air.
If in less than a minute I started to feel the high temperature fuming inside a vehicle, imagine what it can be for a baby to spend several hours in these conditions.
It has happened again
There are already several cases of deaths in children who have stayed inside a car, most of them forgotten, and unfortunately something like this has happened again, this time in Italy, where a girl died a few days ago by staying five hours in a car, forgotten by her father who had to leave her in nursery school.
When the father arrived in the car the girl was breathing hard. She was admitted to the pediatric hospital of Salesi de Ancona, where she died three days later.
Never leave a child in a car
It's hot or not, nobody should ever leave a child alone in a car, because of the risks it may run (as we don't leave it alone anywhere else). Focusing on heat stroke, it is important to know that on a summer day, at about 33 ° C, even when the car windows are slightly lowered, the indoor temperature can reach 48ºC in just 20 minutes and 65ºC in 40 minutes.
Given this temperature and considering that children manage the heat worse than adults it is easy to understand that as the minutes pass they begin to dehydrate, fainting and even die if no remedy is put.
It's true that we all have very busy lives, but that It is no excuse to take into account the risks that a child runs in a car and the danger of leaving it inside (or leaving it inside).
