Bathroom Cabinets: Child Safety

Keeping your child safe from hazards in the home is the essential priority for any parent, especially in the bathroom where many dangerous medicines and cleaning products are kept in bathroom cabinets. Follow this guide to child-proofing your bathroom.

There’s nothing a parent dreads more than discovering their child has got their hands on a bottle of medicine or cleaning fluid, and having to rush them to hospital. So why wait until this happens before child-proofing your bathroom cabinets? Acting now can prevent any accidents and save all of your family a lot of physical and emotional pain (and guilt on your part). This guide is to designed to walk you through the different steps you need to take to make your bathroom cabinets safe for children of any age.

Bathroom Cabinets: The Dangers

Before taking steps to make your bathroom safe, you need to identify and understand the dangers that lurk within bathroom cabinets. For starters, many people will have a floor-level cabinet in their bathroom containing all their cleaning fluids. Bathrooms need particularly potent and toxic cleaning products such as bleach, so there is a horrible accident just waiting to happen. Then there’s the medicine cabinet - a hotbed of danger for children of any age. Bottles of coloured pills that look like sweets and make an intriguing rattling sound are just far too tempting for little ones, and colourful liquid medicines may be mistaken for fruity drinks. There are also nail scissors, metal nail files and sharp tweezers to take into account, which could lead to cuts and eye injuries. Bathroom cabinets aren’t just an innocent piece of furniture when you have a family!

Bathroom Cabinets: Make them Safe

So now you’re aware of the potential dangers of bathroom cabinets and their contents, it’s time to learn how to make them safe for kids. These points should help:

• Store any cleaning fluids in cupboards high off the ground, or in lockable bathroom cabinets. You might want to consider storing all of your household cleaning products in one locked cupboard, so you can keep that particular danger contained, and outside the bathroom.
• If you do keep medicines in your bathroom cabinets, make sure you only have tamper-proof bottles. Keep all scissors, nail files and tweezers well out of reach, or store these in a high drawer or shelf in your bedroom.
• Consider investing in a magnetic lock for all bathroom cabinets, whether they are on ground level or fixed to the wall. These can only be opened with a special magnetic key, and are impossible for children to prise open or get their fingers trapped in.

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