Swallowed objects and other foreign bodies
Swallowed items. Babies and small children swallow plum bones, coins, safety pins, beads, buttons - anything at all. Most of these objects with great ease passes through their insides, even open pins and glass shards. The most dangerous are needles and pins.
If the child has swallowed a smooth object such as a bone or a button without any effort, you do not have to worry. Give him bread to push this thing through. Only for a few days, watch the chair to make sure that the object came out. Naturally, if a child tears, or he complains of abdominal pain, or the object is stuck in his throat, or he swallowed a sharp object, such as an open safety pin or a needle, you must immediately notify the doctor.
Never give a child who swallows an object a laxative. It will not bring any benefit, it can only cause harm.
If the child chokes. If a child breathes something into the windpipe and chokes, turn his head down and slap him on the back. If he continues to suffocate and turns blue, immediately run to the nearest hospital or doctor's office. Do not wait a minute!
A sharp object, like a fish bone, stuck in the throat, causes great inconvenience, but not as dangerous as an object that prevents breathing. Try to get to the doctor quickly, but this is not a matter of life and death. Very often the doctor does not find the object in the throat when viewed, although the child says that he is there. In this case the fish bone or other object is swallowed, but the child feels scratches in the throat.
Artificial respiration. Never do it to someone who breathes on their own. A person can stop breathing, suffocating, drowning, from an electric shock, from inhaling a poisonous gas( for example, gas used for lighting, exhaust gases from a car, carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion of coal in an oven).It is very important to make artificial respiration to the victim immediately and continue to do until he begins to breathe himself or until specialists appear. If necessary, you need to do this for four hours. It is better to learn to do artificial respiration in advance and practice.
If the child drowns and water flows out of his respiratory tract, place it on a small head incline downward( at the beginning of the artificial respiration, raise his hips to release the water of their respiratory throat).If the weather is cold, place a blanket or coat under it and cover it. Making artificial respiration is the most important thing.
The victim must lie on his stomach. Hands are bent, one hand on top of the other. The face is turned to one side and lies on the hands.
You squat on the at the head of the ( Nielsen method), knees on either side of the head, resting on the heels.
Press your hands to the back of the drowned person so that the tips of your thumbs touch each other. Your elbows are at the level of his armpits, his fingers are stretched out along his chest.
To push the air out of his lungs, you lean forward and press on the chest;Your hands occupy a vertical position relative to the palms of your hands. Pressure carries out the weight of your body. If the baby is small, do not crush it.
Stop pushing. When you lean back, move your hands from chest to his arms in the armpits. Continuing to slowly lean back, still holding your elbows straight, you pull to yourself and a little bit from the ground of his arm, thereby expanding the lungs. When you feel resistance and tension, lower your hands to the ground. Repeat the whole process. The forward movement should take about two seconds, the backward movement is also two seconds, so there will be 15 breaths and breaths per minute.
The best method of artificial respiration for a child is: you hold it exactly on your hands, face down, and slightly tilt down and up, as if it lies on a swing. When he lies with his head down, his internal organs press on the diaphragm and push the air out of his lungs.
When it tilts upward, the internal organs pull back the diaphragm, and air enters the lungs. This method also helps to restore blood circulation.
You do not need to keep the child completely upside down. It is enough to tilt it down and up half way. The cycle( down-up) must be repeated 10-15 once a minute.
Another method of artificial respiration for a child is to clamp his nose, cuddle his lips to his lips and blow the slowly and carefully, then as gently suck in the air and inhale himself. Repeat 10-15 times per minute.
Items in the nose and ears. Young children often put objects like beads or scraps of paper in the nose and ears. It is important that you, trying to get them, do not push them deeper. Do not attempt to remove smooth solid objects. You will almost certainly push them deeper. If the soft object is not very deep, you can grab it with tweezers.
If the object is in the nose, make the child blow his nose( do not do this if the baby is very small: instead of blowing his nose, he can draw in air).A little later the object can come out during sneezing. If the object remains in the nose, take the child to a doctor or specialist. If a foreign object remains in the nose for several days, it usually causes foul-smelling discharge with blood. If such a discharge comes out of one nostril, you should always suspect such an opportunity.