An important reminder that water wings aren't safe and don't prevent drowning — via FatherlyHQ Here are some more pool safety tips that will help protect your family. —
,” says Benjamin Hoffman, a pediatrician at Oregon Health & Science University. “And you can’t trust a toy to save a child.”
Playing in the pool, lake, or ocean is a sacred summer tradition for many families, but it’s also dangerous. Twelve kids die from drowning every week in the U.S., not because of negligent caregivers, but because an accident can occur in an instant. “Most people underestimate the risk of drowning. They don’t understand how quick and silent and common it is,” warns Hoffman.
Water wings don’t carry that approval for a reason: The tubes can slide or be pulled off, pop or slowly deflate, leaving a droopy ring of plastic. That being said, they’re bright, they float, and therefore it’s easy to misinterpret their purpose. “It gives parents and children a false sense of security,” says Candice Dye, a pediatrician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “They think that they’re doing the right thing.
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