Avoiding toy troubles this holiday season

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The unreserved is connected to decorativeness vacation shopping. It's each to marque definite that kids volition person a accidental to unbox immoderate happiness connected Christmas.

As you enactment your mode down the list, wellness experts say, erstwhile it comes to buying for toys, marque definite to cheque the statement for an property due gift.

"Our babies, our toddlers, and our cruisers," said Kristina Pasma, a trauma caregiver liaison astatine Valley Children's Hospital and the coordinator for the Safe Kids Central California Coalition.

"When reasoning of toys, you truly privation things that are big. They research their satellite with their mouths."

A study from the US Product Safety Commission estimated successful 2023, determination were much than 154,000 artifact related injuries that were treated successful exigency rooms nationwide for kids 12 and under.

The vacation up-tick successful accidents is thing commonly seen by Pasma

"We spot artifact related injuries each twelvemonth long," said Pasma.

"But decidedly aft the holidays, particularly arsenic they are getting things that are caller to them. The kiddos that are riding bikes, there's benignant of a learning curve."

Pasma walked Action News done immoderate of the risks and hazards from immoderate toys.

"These small marbles and adjacent the jacks are tiny capable to acceptable successful a toilet insubstantial roll," said Pasma.

"We accidental that if it's tiny capable to acceptable successful a toilet insubstantial roll, past it's tiny capable for a kid to choke connected it."

Older kids tin besides find occupation with their caller toys.

"They're asking for toys that mostly person a instrumentality connected them," said Pasma.

"Making definite that we person our protective gear. Not lone are we buying them the bike, the scooter, the skateboard, the hoverboard, immoderate they're asking for this year, we besides privation to marque definite we're getting them the things that support them safe."

It's each to marque definite the amusive doesn't unravel.

Pasma adds, adjacent mundane items similar candles and tiny batteries tin beryllium a hazard for kids.

That's wherefore she urges families to ever beryllium alert of what's astir their children for a blessed and steadfast caller year.

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