{"id":5775,"date":"2016-12-18T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2016-12-18T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T01:43:41","slug":"christmas-choking-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/christmas-choking-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas choking hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2016\/12\/AJA_Choking-story-pic.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5770\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2016\/12\/AJA_Choking-story-pic-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"aja_choking-story-pic\" width=\"253\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2016\/12\/AJA_Choking-story-pic-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2016\/12\/AJA_Choking-story-pic-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2016\/12\/AJA_Choking-story-pic-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>How often have you given a child a gift, only for the box or wrapping to be more interesting to them? This Christmas we\u2019re asking you to keep an eye out for wrappings, ribbons, decorations, or plastic packaging that may pose a choking, suffocation or strangulation hazard, especially around young children.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, anything that\u2019s smaller than a D-sized battery, like small pieces in Christmas crackers, button batteries, nuts, lollies and small toys, can choke a child under three years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s especially important to check toys, gadgets and musical cards for button batteries \u2013 if found, consider removing them from your home.\u00a0 <strong>If a child swallows a button battery, go to your nearest hospital emergency department immediately and do not induce vomiting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The RCH\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childhealthpoll.org.au\/\">Australian Child Health Poll<\/a>\u00a0recently found that more than a third (38%)\u00a0of Australian parents reported they did not know the first aid for a choking child. If you don\u2019t feel confident in first aid treatment of children, consider making time to do some first aid training. First aid course providers, along with more tips on choking prevention, are listed in our fact sheet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/kidsinfo\/fact_sheets\/Choking,_Suffocation_and_Strangulation\/\">Choking, Suffocation and Strangulation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Christmas can present unexpected choking hazards &#8211; read our tips on choking prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}