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Button Battery Safety

If swallowed, button batteries can cause serious injury or death in as little as two hours.

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Carbon Monoxide Safety

An alarm is the only way to know if there are dangerous levels of carbon monoxide in your home.

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Child Passenger Safety

Car crashes continue to be a leading cause of death for children in the U.S.

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Food and Drink Scalds

Scalds from hot food or drinks are one of the most common burns requiring hospital care for children under age 5.

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Food-related Choking

More than half of choking incidents among children are caused by food. Learn how to keep your kids safer for meals, snacks, and every bite in between.

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Heatstroke: Kids in Hot Cars

Kids in hot cars: when children are left in or gain access to cars, temperatures as low as 57 degrees can become deadly in minutes.

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Laundry Detergent Packets

Highly-concentrated laundry detergent packets are more poisonous than traditional liquid or powder detergent.

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Portable Pools

In the summertime in the U.S., a child drowns in a portable pool every 5 days.

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Product Recalls

Millions of unsafe products are recalled every year. Go to SaferProducts.gov to learn about and report safety problems with items your family uses.

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Safe Sleep

Data from the CDC shows that more than 3,400 babies die each year, often from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sleep-related suffocation and strangulation.

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Shopping Cart Safety

Shopping cart injuries are more than pinched fingers. Learn how to prevent your child from a serious head or neck injury before you shop.

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Stair Safety

Safety steps: when carrying a child up or down steps, protect your most important cargo by carrying the child only, leaving one hand free to hold on to the railing.

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Sun Safety

Showing children the importance of sun safety when they’re young lays the groundwork for a lifetime of healthy skin habits, protecting them from painful burns in the short-term and skin cancers when they’re older.

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Toy Safety

Toy-related injuries send a child to a U.S. emergency department every three minutes.