Find us on:
In this episode Michelle Macy, MD, MS, an attending physician of Emergency Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, covers a range of safety tips for common summer injuries, including heat-related concerns, water safety and road trip precautions. Dr. Macy provides practical evidence-based advice to help parents keep their children safe and healthy during the summer months.
“Assign somebody to be a water watcher, even if you're at a place where there's a lifeguard, because the lifeguards are taking care of everybody in a facility or on a beach and you and your family or friends might be the only one who sees your child at the moment that they're having a little bit of trouble. We want to be sure that families are thinking about fashion when it comes to water safety, because yellow, pink, red bathing suits are more visible underwater. And so we want to encourage those bright colors because they have a good contrast with the water so that if a child goes under, it's a little bit easier to find them.”
-Dr. Michelle Macy
You may need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the documents listed on this page.
