Making your home safe and healthy for children protects everyone. If children get sick, getting well may be harder. Their immune systems, which fight illness, are still developing. For their size, children eat more food, drink more water and breathe more air than adults. When they get lead in their bodies or breathe in harmful gases, they get a bigger dose than adults would.
Children play and crawl on the ground.
This means they are closer to things that might cause health problems, like dust and some chemicals. This booklet asks you simple questions about your home and your daily activities. By answering these questions, you can find out if your home is healthy, or if you need to do things differently. There are five sections in this booklet. Every section gives you some information about one topic, asks you questions about it, and shows you simple steps to protect your children's health.