Baby neck floats are under fire again after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned against their use in water therapies following the death of one baby and hospitalization of another in unsupervised usage.
“Do not use baby neck floats for water therapy intervention,” the FDA wrote in a media statement released on June 28. “Especially with babies who have developmental delays or special needs, such as spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1, Down syndrome, or cerebral palsy. The use of these products can lead to death or serious injury.”
Though these events are rare, the FDA advised that they can happen, with both of the cases happening when a caregiver was not directly monitoring the baby….