Everyday tips

Activities

Your child can participate in most regular activities as long as certain safety issues are respected. Discuss with your child’s healthcare team.
Always supervise young children during play.
Place your child in the most comfortable position to facilitate breathing, according to your child’s condition.
To protect your child’s tracheostomy and airway, the following activities should be avoided:
- contact sports,
- swimming,
- playing with small toys or objects that can easily get lodged in the tracheal cannula,
- playing with objects that easily break up into small fragments (eg, fuzzy toys) or that emit dust (eg, chalk, aerosolized paints),
- playing in sand or crawling on dirty floors,
- playing with latex balloons; small bits of the plastic from burst balloons are a choking hazard,
- playing in close contact with a household pet; medical equipment and devices may be damaged or soiled (chewing, piercing of tubing with claws, etc),
- playing with, pulling or removing the tracheostomy ties; explain to your child and your child’s playmates that the tracheostomy is not a toy.

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