Child Safe from Your Window Blinds and Shades

Children dies every two weeks from being strangled by a window covering cord. How you can keep your family safe in this Good Housekeeping Report.

Children dies every two weeks from being strangled by a window covering cord. How you can keep your family safe in this Good Housekeeping Report. Here's an alarming fact, a child passes away every 2 weeks being strangled by a window covering cord. Good Housekeeping Investigation Institute Technical and Engineering Director, Stacey Genovese says consumer should search for hidden dangers.

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There have been a lot of recalls recently on window covering concerning strangulation risk for children. These primarily are window blinds, roman shades, and roll-up shades and people don't really understand what the risk is really because a lot of people know about the pull cord, which is the cord that raises as well as lowers the shades and they think if there is no loop there, that they're secure. The inner cord is what is the problem on blinds. Children have been known to get their fingertips in here and pull on this cord creating a loop, which they can place around their neck and then strangle them selves.
The consumer experts at Good Housekeeping say a safe alternative is honey brush shades.
These have cords inside of them with regard to raising and lowering it, so children cannot access them, so they aren't at risk.
For more important and safety tips about window shades and blinds, go to GoodHousekeeping. com, I'm Jacqueline Boulden.

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