Not three, not two minutes. Almost half of the parents confess to having left the child in the car sometime while they were running a message, but it is very dangerous, so do not leave your baby alone in the car or five minutes ever, much less in summer.
In summer, the temperature inside the car can increase by one degree per minute, which can cause you to suffer a heat stroke with serious consequences. More than once we have heard frightening news about the death of "forgotten" babies inside the car.
Although the windows are left a little open, on very hot days, the car reaches deadly temperatures and the air that enters fails to reduce it. Due to its physiology, a baby becomes dehydrated very quickly. When we talk about heat stroke and dehydration we don't talk about feeling thirsty, but about a very serious decompensation that can leave physical and neuronal sequelae, and even cause death.
To give you an idea of what happens, the interior temperature of the car can increase from 10 to 15 degrees in just 15 minutes, while on the other hand, the body temperature of a child between 0 and 4 years increases from 3 to 5 times faster than in adults, causing heat stroke and what is known as hyperthermia, a serious disorder that usually occurs in less than 20 minutes and causes death in two hours.
In addition to the heat, the car is not a place for a baby to be alone, even if it is tied in his car seat. Neither in winterof course. The temperature inside a closed car also increases at any time of the year.
In addition, they can occur other kind of misfortunes Like stealing the car with the baby inside, opening it, giving it a blow, letting the child loose and manipulate something, or worse, that manages to open the door and get out of the car.
For all this, never leave your baby alone in the car for five minutes (much less in summer). Always lower it with you, even if you have fallen asleep or are watching it from outside.
