Fireworks are associated with parties and celebrations, but their inappropriate use does not always bring joy. Fireworks can be a serious risk any time children are allowed to handle them, not to mention that they are a real torment for pets.
The fireworks are usually the highlight of the festivities, and especially of the December celebrations. The end of the year becomes a time of deployment for the use of fireworks, which, no matter how showy it may be, requires that it be handled only by adults because it represents a serious risk for children, not to mention that it is a real torment for pets. . Here are some recommendations so that tonight when the fireworks mark the culmination of 2022, they do not become bad news.
The pyrotechnics in all its presentations is a product that contains gunpowder and requires the use of fire, which directly poses a risk to children. The handling of fireworks, even the popular and apparently harmless flares, implies a very high risk of accidents.
Burns. Never allow children to prepare or ignite detonating products. It is recommended that each time you try ignite this type of pyrotechnic product, an adult supervise each step. The fundamental danger is that they are made to burn unintentionally and are the main cause of serious burns in children.
Surprise explosion. If the match, trachy-trachy or little onion does not light well or does not explode immediately and correctly, the children will try to take it again and when they get close they can detonate by surprise, which can burn the skin, affect their eyes, but it could also ignite some type of fabric in your clothing and increase the risk of a hard-to-control burn.
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injuries. Burns are not the only risk. Serious injuries such as mutilation of the hands or feet are very common as a result of an explosion. If gunpowder is accidentally spilled because one of the firecrackers is not in good condition or even if it came defective from the factory, this could cause an unintentional explosion that causes injuries, damage or even loss of limbs.
Explosions magnified. The use of fireworks without adult supervision magnifies the risk because children use bottles, cans, boxes and other containers in which they introduce the match to amplify the sound of the explosion, which entails a greater danger due to the fact that the detonation will fly particles of glass, metal or cardboard igniting and further damage children near the explosion.
acoustic trauma. Another frequent risk of fireworks in children is hearing damage. If the children are very young or if they are babies, being too close to a loud explosion can cause ear problems, ranging from acoustic trauma lasting a few days to more severe hearing problems.
Pets suffer during parties
Another type of consequence that is not taken into account and is related to fireworks is that domestic animals or wildlife have a sense of hearing ten times more developed than that of humans, so pyrotechnic explosions are very harmful to them.
Among the effects that it generates during the moments of greatest intensity of detonations is:
- Dogs and cats, pets, can suffer burns, despair, salivation, cardiac arrhythmias, stress and disorientation, which, in many cases, even causes death.
- Wildlife, especially birds, are more vulnerable to the explosion of gunpowder, so it is common for them to become disoriented, suffer collisions and in some cases abandon their nests.
What to do so that it does not affect them?
- Use music to calm them down.
- Keep your pet in a room with closed windows and curtains that keep out loud sounds.
- Give him toys to calm him down before the times when there will be more banging.
- If you must leave your pet alone (although this is not recommended), play relaxing music and close doors and windows well.
- Talk to him naturally and in a soft tone until he calms down.
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