"Symptoms of heat stroke in the car" Infants transported 38 people in 5 years 12:36, August 7, Ibaraki
In Ibaraki prefecture, interviews with the fire department revealed that at least 38 infants were transported to the hospital due to heatstroke symptoms in their cars during the last five years. Firefighters call for caution not to leave the car with children left for a short time.
In June this year, a two-year-old girl who had been left in the car for about seven hours in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture and was believed to have had heat stroke died.
NHK interviewed all fire departments in Ibaraki prefecture and found that at least 38 infants aged 0 to 6 were transported to the hospital due to heat stroke symptoms in their cars over the last five years. I understand.
All of them had no life threats, but some of them were left behind for about two hours.
By age, 21 are 1-year-olds, more than half of the total, followed by 7 0-year-olds and 6 2-year-olds.
The most frequent cases were 11 people in August, but 8 people were transported in May and 1 person in October, so caution is required outside of midsummer.
According to fire fighting, there are many cases where the key of the car was locked while the key of the car was left inside due to a mistaken operation of a child, but inside it said that "it will be okay if the air conditioner is on" It means that there were cases in which there was a problem.
In the summer, the fire department raises the temperature inside the car in a short time, and because children have an underdeveloped function of adjusting body temperature and are prone to heat stroke, they warn children not to leave the car for a short time. I will.