<div class="block">Helping children understand the safety and dangers of water can be the difference between life and death. Susan Katz, RN at Stony Brook Medicine, joined &#39;beWell&#39; to talk about vigilance when it comes to children and water. </div>

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Be Well: Water Safety for Children

Today, we're gonna talk about water safety when it comes to our Children and especially for little ones who don't know how to swim yet. We really have to be. I want to say hyper vigilant. Absolutely. When you have water and you live around water, your child's around water, you really have to be on top of them. You know, you don't want to leave that child alone. Not for a minute, not for a second is what we talk about and not leaving any toys around as well. So they don't reach for it or want to play with it. Right. Exactly. If they're fun, their child wants to play, they don't know the different. So they reach for the water. They are top heavy, their heads are very heavy. They toppled into the water and people don't realize they think they'll hear their child, but in actuality, drowning is silent and you won't hear that child crawling for help when they're actually drowning. And I know one of the things you were saying is if a parent finds that your child, that you can't find them, the first place to look is the water. Absolutely. Every second counts. So if your child is missing and you're around water, check any body of water first for that child and then go look elsewhere.