Bites of children of bees, wasps and other insects

Insects that leave their stings in the skin of the child cause two problems: inflammation at the site of the bite or an allergic reaction to the poison.

How to remove the sting

The bee leaves its sting at the bite and a poison bag attached to it. Scrape out the protruding bag of poison with a sharp knife or edge of the credit card before removing the remainder of the sting.(If you immediately start to remove the stinger and inevitably compress the pouch with tweezers, you will inject even more venom into

skin.) The ascent of the stinger does not have a bag of poison. Removing the stinger with the forceps, attach ice to the site of the bite to slow the spread of the poison and reduce the pain.

Allergic reactions

Signs of an allergic reaction are swollen hands and eyelids, wheezing and rash-like rash. If your child has a localized swelling around the bite, apply ice and wait a bit before calling a doctor. If a fearful allergic reaction appears, it will happen within one hour after the bite. If the listed above symptoms of systemic allergies have occurred, immediately take the child to your doctor's office or to the emergency room. The most dangerous manifestations of allergies that appear after a bite are wheezing and shortness of breath.

Repeated bite may cause an even more severe allergic reaction in the child than the first. If your child has any of the above symptoms after the first time he was stung by a bee, take precautions. As soon as your child is stung, attach a packet of ice and immediately go to the emergency room, where you will sit for a while in the waiting room. If there are no signs of an allergy within two hours, you can safely return home.

If your child has repeatedly had a severe allergy to insect bites, discuss with your doctor the possibility of hyposensitization to insect bites, which is a number of injections. If you go on a trip, and your child already had a strong reaction to bites, take a prescription kit of insect bites containing adrenaline, which is accompanied by instructions for use.

Extraction of ticks

Because ticks are carriers of diseases, in particular spirochaetes that cause Lyme arthritis, they must be carefully and fully removed. Here's how to remove the mite:

• Treat the surrounding skin with an alcohol swab soaked in alcohol with a cotton swab.

• Tweezers with blunt tips grab the mite as close to its jaws and as close to the baby's skin as possible. Slowly pull the mite up, outward, but do not squeeze it or turn.

• Do not attempt to pull the mite with your fingers, as the head may break off from the trunk and remain in the skin.

• Do not use the heat from a lit match or cigarette to remove the tick, as the heat can cause the mite to go deeper into the skin.

• If the mite is under the skin:( 1) with your thumb and forefinger, protect the skin in which the tick's head is located, then( 2) carefully scrape off the scalpel or sterile single razor blade with the head and jaws of the mite, or use a sterile needle,to tear the skin and get the head with jaws. If the mites cause you to be squeamish, ask them to remove your doctor's mite.

• If Lyme disease is common in your area, do not throw out the tick, because it can carry the causative agent of the disease and infect your child with it;Take the mite to the laboratory for analysis.(If you take into account how often children are bitten by mites, Lyme disease is a rare phenomenon.)

• Carefully treat the bite site with an antiseptic.

Babies beginning to walk, and older children, stumbling and falling, often come across the corners of the tables with two front teeth. In most cases, these backward-shifted teeth return to their normal position and come out alive from many falls until they give way to permanent teeth five years later. If your child has damaged the gums and teeth, apply an ice pack or give the baby a frozen candy to help swollen gums. If blood flows from the gums, moisten a piece of bandage with cold water and lay it between the lips and gums, pushing into the place from which the blood flows. Call your dentist if you need to immediately align your teeth. If the teeth were too deep into the gums, the roots could suffer, and the life of such teeth will be shortened( as evidenced by the gradual darkening and loosening of the tooth).Again, consult a dentist.

In addition, watch for abscesses( signs are heat and swelling, soreness of the gums over the damaged tooth), which can occur in a traumatized place three to seven days later. If the tooth is loosened so strongly that it keeps on literally on a thread and does not seem to survive, your dentist can offer to remove it immediately for fear that during the fall the tooth that has fallen out can get into the child's airways. The embossed milk tooth can not be reimplanted. If the milk tooth has broken and there are sharp, prickly edges, sometimes the dentist can recommend polishing sharp edges to prevent injury to the lips at the next fall. A permanent tooth can often be reimplanted, but the decisive role here is to care for the tooth on the way to the dentist. Take the tooth for the crown, in no case for the root. If the tooth is very dirty, carefully wash off the contamination with water( only not over the open drain), immerse the tooth in the baby's saliva and put it in a secure container. Do not clean or scrape the roots of the knocked tooth, as this can damage the roots and make the reimplantation impossible.