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The following are news items and safety alerts to help keep you up to date on current topics to keep your children safe and healthy:

• Summer Fun Warnings: For many Americans, summer means fun in the sun. However, summer also is the time of year consumers are most likely to be injured. Summer safety tips include making sure your children wear a helmet, use layers of protection around the pool, cook safely with a gas grill, have a safe home playground, and keep your kids safe when you are doing yard work.
• Spring Cleaning Recall Round-Up: It's time for spring cleaning, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging Americans to join its "recall round-up" of 12 hazardous products still found in millions of homes. Most of these have been involved in children's deaths. The goal of this recall round-up is to convince consumers to throw away, repair, or replace these hazardous products. Despite recall notices and public warnings, CPSC believes that many products with the potential to seriously injure or kill are still being used by consumers.
• Alcohol Free Weekend: Parents and other adults are asked to abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages during Alcohol-Free Weekend, which takes place in 2002 from Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7, to demonstrate that alcohol isn't necessary to have a good time.
• Kick Butts Day: Thousands of kids across America take center stage in the fight against tobacco on April 3 as they participate in the seventh annual Kick Butts Day.
• Poison Prevention Week: The goal of National Poison Prevention Week, this year held March 17-23, is to help reduce the annual toll of about 30 deaths to children under 5 years old.
• Beat the Winter Bugs: Tips for preventing and controlling the symptoms of a cold or the flu.
• Holiday Safety Alert: As families gather for the holidays, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers that dangerous children's products may still be in their homes. These are some of the CPSC's largest recalls or consumer alerts involving children's products over the last year.
• Immunization Coverage Levels: Info on the recall of about 3.4 million Joyride® infant car seats/carriers. When the seat is used as an infant carrier, the handle can unexpectedly release, causing the seat to flip forward. When this happens, an infant inside the carrier can fall to the ground and suffer serious injuries.
• Car Seat Recalls: Info on the recall of about 3.4 million Joyride® infant car seats/carriers. When the seat is used as an infant carrier, the handle can unexpectedly release, causing the seat to flip forward. When this happens, an infant inside the carrier can fall to the ground and suffer serious injuries.
• Methyl Mercury in Fish: A public health advisory from the FDA concerning methyl mercury in fish and the hazards to women who are pregnant or may become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children on the number of meals of fish that are safe to eat each week.
• Phenylpropanolamine: The FDA advisory against using cold medicines with PPA or phenyl- propanolamine.

Important disclaimer: The information on keepkidshealthy.com is for educational purposes only and should not be considered to be medical advice. It is not meant to replace the advice of the physician who cares for your child. All medical advice and information should be considered to be incomplete without a physical exam, which is not possible without a visit to your doctor.