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FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The American Academy of Pediatrics’ updated car seat guidelines recommend children remain in a rear-facing car safety seat as long as possible, according to policy statement published online Aug. 30 in Pediatrics<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Dennis R. Durbin, M.D., and Benjamin D. Hoffman, M.D., along with members of the AAP Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention, provide evidence-based recommendations for best practices in the choice of a child restraint system to optimize safety in passenger vehicles for children from birth through adolescence.<\/p>\n
The updated recommendations include the following: (1) rear-facing car safety seats as long as possible; (2) forward-facing car safety seats from the time they outgrow rear-facing seats (for most children through at least 4 years of age); (3) belt-positioning booster seats from the time they outgrow forward-facing seats (for most children through at least 8 years of age); (4) lap and shoulder seat belts for all who have outgrown booster seats; and (5) all children younger than 13 years should ride in the rear seats of vehicles.<\/p>\n
“It is important to note that every transition is associated with some decrease in protection; therefore, parents should be encouraged to delay these transitions for as long as possible,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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