Waterbed Mattress Safety Tips
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If you own a waterbed at home, you must be aware of some of these safety tips so that accidents don’t harm or hurt you and your family. These tips do not come in the manual, and it would really be very good to keep them in mind:
Never Allow A Child To Jump On A Hardside Or Softside Water Bed Mattress. Water bed surface is soft and it wobbles when someone standing on it. It is difficult even to stand upright and keep your balance on its surface. Your kids may had been taught not to jump on it but if you’ve friends or neighbors visiting you, their kids may played on it without your knowledge. Because the water bed is very much different from the conventional spring mattress, most kids are intrigued with a mattress containing water in it, and they love jumping on it. Jumping may not damage your water mattress but it may cause serious injury if the kid fell off the water bed and hit the ground or its wooden frame.
Never Allow Anyone To Go Under A Water Bed. Always keep a watchful eye and do not allow a toddler to crawl under a water bed. Some water bed foundation has gaps large enough for a child to crawl underneath the water bed. The 9 legged softside water bed frame is one good example. Kids hid under the water bed when playing a game of hide and seek. Even adults go underneath the water bed to retrieve an item dropped under it. If you need to retrieve an item under the water bed, use a broom or vacuum cleaner handle. Never crawl under the water bed or even allow your pet to sleep under it. Accident can happen without warning and can you imagine the consequences of a 1,000kg, that’s 2,200 lb. of a huge monster bed coming down on you or the child.
Inspect Your Water Bed Regularly. Beside checking for leak, always inspect your water bed regularly for tell tale sign of its bed frame or pedestal and foundation breaking apart.
Infants Should Not Be Allowed To Sleep On A Hardside Or Softside Water Bed. Never let infants sleep on a hardside or softside water mattress. Infants can suffocate while sleeping when they:
Become trapped between mattress and frame.
Become wedged against adult and mattress
Sink into water mattress while on stomach.
An unattended leaking hardside or softside water bed may cause drowning in infants.
Bedridden Patients Should Not Be Allowed To Sleep On A Hardside Or Softside Water Bed Unattended. Water bed can help in the prevention and relief of bed sores in bedridden patients but leaving the patient unattended can be dangerous when there is a leak in the water mattress.
Do Not Allow Anyone To Sleep On The Floor Next To Your Water Bed. Due to space constraint, many water bed owners allow their kids or family members to sleep next to the hardside or softside water bed.by laying a mattress on the floor next to it. This is a very unsafe practice and dangerous. Since a water bed weighs up to a 1,000 kg. (2,200 lbs.) or more, if it collapsed, it could cause serious injury to the person sleeping next to it.
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