Perhaps many parents have this feeling. The older the child is, the more worried he is. When he cannot climb or walk, the range of activities is controllable and it is better to master the safety of the child. However, when the child can climb, walk and run, the range of activities is much larger. He often worries that in case he cannot take care of him, the child will have accidents.
Although the best way to prevent accidents is to do a good job in safety work and safety education for children at ordinary times, even so, it is sometimes difficult to avoid accidents.
Mastering some correct first aid methods can at least help us not to be in a hurry when an accident occurs. Although Ding Ma hopes these first aid methods very much, parents will never use them.
Misuse of drugs, poisons and cleaning products is one of the most common accidents for children. It is also seen from time to time in first aid work. Some children mistakenly use sugar-coated tablets as sugar beans, and some children drink pesticides and cleaning agents in beverage bottles as beverages.
When parents find that their children eat by mistake, in addition to making emergency calls immediately, they can induce vomiting of their children according to the situation before the ambulance arrives.
Can what induce vomiting?
After finding that the child has taken drugs and poisons by mistake, the first thing to do is to see if the child is conscious. If the child is conscious and knows to agree to ask him questions, then help the child to induce vomiting as soon as possible.
First, let the child drink about 300ml of water. After drinking, stimulate his tongue with non-sharp things such as toothbrush handle to help the child spit out what he has eaten. Attention should be paid to the need for the child to spit out the water he has just drunk together with the drugs and poisons in his stomach.
After vomiting, drink water again, vomit it out again, and repeat it several times.
The following four points should be paid attention to when inducing vomiting:
Step 1 Drink water in moderation
The amount of water to drink should be calculated according to the child’s weight. Adults usually drink 300ml. If they are younger children, they should drink less, which is about the same as the amount of milk they usually drink.
If you drink too much water at one time and the pressure in the stomach increases, it will promote the poison to enter the intestinal tract, which is not conducive to the discharge of the poison.
Step 2: Drink as much as you can and spit out as much
Let the child spit out as much as he drinks. Never drink 300 milliliters and spit out 200 milliliters. The remaining 100 milliliters will be absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract.
STEP 3 Retain vomitus
What you spit out should be kept as far as possible. It is best for your child to spit directly into a glass bottle and take it with you when you go to the hospital so as to facilitate doctors to do poison identification.
4. The water temperature should be suitable.
It is best to drink water close to body temperature, not too cold or too hot.
- If the water temperature is too high, the capillaries on the gastrointestinal mucosa will expand, which will promote the absorption of poisons. If the water temperature is too low, the stomach will contract when stimulated, resulting in an increase in intragastric pressure, which will promote the poison to enter the intestinal tract and also make the poison easier to be absorbed by the body. In addition, as soon as the gastric mucosal folds contract, the poison is caught in them and it is not easy to wash them clean.
After giving the child vomiting, he should be sent to the hospital as soon as possible.
Can’t what induce vomiting?
If a child is found to have eaten by mistake, he must first judge the child’s consciousness. If the child is not conscious, he cannot be forced to vomit.
Forcibly vomiting in an unconscious state is easy to cause vomitus aspiration and suffocation. At this time, we should immediately call the emergency phone and send the child to the hospital as soon as possible.
In addition to the situation of unconsciousness, if the child takes strong acidic and alkaline poisons by mistake, never induce vomiting, otherwise it will bring secondary damage to the child’s digestive tract. After simple treatment, the child should be sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
- If you take iodine or lysol water and other drugs with strong stimulating and corrosive effects by mistake, you can give your child some starchy liquids such as rice soup and noodle soup to reduce the damage to gastric mucosa. If you take strong alkaline poison by mistake, you can give your child vinegar, lemon juice, orange juice, etc. to weaken the alkalinity. If you take highly acidic poisons by mistake, such as acidic detergents such as toilet cleaner, you can give your child pure milk and raw egg white to reduce the corrosion of digestive tract.
Safety work should be done well.
In order to avoid accidents, the most important thing is to do a good job of safety prevention at ordinary times.
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Daily necessities such as detergents and medicines are best placed in high cabinets that children cannot reach or locked up to prevent children from taking them by themselves.
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Do not pour detergent, alcohol, gasoline, etc. into empty beverage bottles for storage. Do not use food containers to contain anything that is not food.
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Don’t cheat the child when taking medicine, saying it is sugar beans, and don’t tease the child when adults drink, saying it is a drink.
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Children have strong imitation ability. Adults should try not to imitate children in front of them when taking medicine.
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After the child is a little sensible, he should make it clear to the child that what can eat and what cannot eat. In case of uncertain things, he should first ask adults.