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Home Safety and Security Tips for First-Time Parents

/by American Alarm Blogging Team

AA-Home Safety and Security Tips for First-Time ParentsCongratulations. You’ve just welcomed your first bundle of joy to the world. Now it’s time to take him or her home for the first time.

You’re a little overwhelmed—that’s understandable. You were so hoping the hospital would send you home with an instruction manual chock full of tips and information on the baby’s first year. You need answers and fast. Now you’ll have to order that manual on Amazon and wait for it to arrive.

Nevertheless, you’re relieved that such a book even exists because you need all the help you can get.

However, until that book arrives, we’d like to offer some tips to help ensure that your home is as safe as it can be for your little one:

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How to Prevent Accidental Poisoning at Home

/by American Alarm Blogging Team

How to Prevent Accidental Poisoning at Home

Approximately 90% of poisonings occur in the home and more than half of them involve children under 5. Those staggering statistics come courtesy of the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention Serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Exposure to poison can take the form of inhalation, ingestion, absorption through the skin, or injection (as in an insect sting), according to the center. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is also a real danger. Although cases of CO poisoning increase during the cold weather, it is still the most common cause of poisoning deaths in the United States.

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