Now that it’s getting warmer, you may be thinking about opening some windows in your home. But if you have young children, you must be careful.
“When the weather gets warm, people compensate by opening windows and letting natural breezes flow through the house,” Dr. Brian Johnston, chief of pediatrics at Harborview Medical Center, said in a release from UW Medicine. “We see a very clear correlation between the temperature outside and the number of window fall cases we admit here at Harborview.”
Every year, about 30 to 50 young children—most of them 2-3 years old—are treated at Harborview Medical Center after falling out of windows…