Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
In all societies where statistics have been compiled, the 2 and 3 year old children account for over half of all reported poisonings, 80-90% of them being under the age of 5 years[2,3,4,5]
More than half the time, the child ingests a toxic agent that is in his clear view
A child tends to react to his environment impulsively, seeking what he wants when he wants it[1]
Summary
In all societies where statistics have been compiled, the 2 and 3 year old children account for over half of all reported poisonings, 80-90% of them being under the age of 5 years[2,3,4,5]. Children who are poisoned are more likely to be impulsive and overactive and are discipline problems for their parents. The 4 year old child tends to be more selective in what he ingests, preferring those things that taste good including flavoured children’s paracetamol, vitamins and candy coated tablets[1]. Programmes must be developed that will completely protect the child aged 3 and under. When he is approaching age 4 he will, if he is taught, understand simple safety rules and have enough good sense not to eat or sample everything that he comes across in the home. Parents should strive for complete and instant obedience to rules of safety early in the child’s life. It is much better to go through life with a questionably scarred ego than a very real scarred oesophagus which will require a lifetime of repeated dilatations[1]
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