Install and use handrails on stairs and in bathtubs. Make sure counters and tables have rounded corners. Keep hallways, stairways, and rooms well lit, using night lights wherever necessary. Since even minor bumps or accidents can fracture a bone, take precautions to avoid large crowds, unknowing toddlers, or large dogs. Children Parents should lift and diaper infants with OI with care and be sure to support their limbs at all times.
Many parents successfully transport their children on a pillow or a foam pad.
Contact the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, Inc. for more information. If you have a child with OI, discuss the symptoms with teachers and other caregivers so they will know that fractures are features of OI and not signs of child abuse. Classmates should be educated to avoid rough play with the child. Contact sports should be avoided. Although OI does not affect intelligence, medical problems and disabilities may present socialization or adjustment problems for children.