Children can deliver to the mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles the sea of positive emotions and pleasant experiences. At the same time the very first rule when near you children, says: be ready at any time to everything. And when they still absolutely small, it is necessary to be attentive doubly. Emergency situation can suddenly arise: just he laughed and played, and in a minute you should decide convulsively – what to do if the child choked and chokes.
The child choked: the first signs
The child can inhale anything – saliva, milk, caramel, fine details from Lego, buttons and other objects.
Important! It is impossible to leave the child without supervision, especially if he eats or plays with toys or objects from which it is possible to disconnect/break off small fragments or details. Often the kid just will not be able to call to the aid – he will block breath.
If you did not come up against such situation yet and do not know what to do if the baby choked, it is necessary to know well symptoms on which you will understand at once that in his airways there is a foreign subject. It:
- sudden cough;
- breath is complicated – the kid widely opens a mouth, tries to inhale;
- eyes are expanded – in them tears and panic;
- in attempt to cry or tell something hoarse or hoarse sounds will be distributed;
- salivation increases;
- the person begins to redden (in more hard cases – to become blue);
- children are more senior instinctively grab hands a throat.
Breath vanishes in the most adverse situations absolutely, and the kid faints.
Whether you know? The ordinary person can do without air of 5-7 minutes. After that in cells of a brain the process of irreversible changes begins. Special trainings can increase this time. The world record on a breath delay under water belongs to Goran Çolak and makes 22 minutes 30 seconds.
What needs to be done first of all
What to do if the baby choked. It is not necessary to panic, your nervousness will be transferred to the kid, and from it it will become even worse. It is necessary to assess a situation whether there is an opportunity to cope independently or it is necessary to call the ambulance.
Physicians recommend to pay attention to cough. If cough loud (ringing), most likely, its organism copes itself – the foreign subject will leave. The child can throw up – in this situation it well. The spasm will push out superfluous of air ways.
In case cough weak and silent, and the breath which is interrupted is required the help.
Important! When it comes to the baby, it is better to be reinsured and call the ambulance. If necessary you will be able to carry out oral instructions of the doctor on phone.
First aid to the child
The help which the child needs and what should be done depends on a number of factors: if the newborn choked with milk - it is one situation if the kid choked with dry food – another, it is necessary to consider, there is a child in consciousness or without, its age, etc.
Experienced doctors advise each mother to be trained to give first aid to the kid, it is the real stressful situation where nerves and panic - not the best assistants.
Is younger than one year
What to do if the baby choked and chokes? Practice several methods of first-aid treatment:
- to grab at once by both legs and, having quickly raised the baby the head up down, to stir up slightly. This reception is very effective and often results in success;
- if the kid choked with liquid (water, saliva, milk) and the first way did not help, it is necessary to take the baby one hand under a stomach, to incline the head down and five times slightly to knock with a palm of other hand between shovels – it is necessary to beat sharply, but is not strong;
- in case of failure it is necessary to put the baby on a back, to throw back to him a few head and two fingers (average and index) to make several sliding pressings on a breast (beginning under a breast in the direction of the person) – on 2-3 cm. After the termination of pressure the breast has to become straight;
- if the kid choked with a firm subject, then it is necessary to make serially pats on a back and pressings until the foreign matter leaves. It is necessary to check periodically a mouth (it is impossible to try to make it to the touch – only visually). If saw – to take.
Is more senior than one year
To children aged from a year is also more senior use a bit different methods (differ depending on a state the child).
In consciousness
If the kid in consciousness, he can follow your instructions and help you. What to do if the child chokes? It is necessary to talk to him quietly and surely, to work quickly:
- if to clear the throat it did not turn out, to place the child to itself on knees down a stomach, supporting under a breast and to artificially cause vomiting (to press enough on a root of language of the kid a spoon or a finger). The head has to be below a bottom;
- if vomiting did not help – sharply, but is not strong, 4-5 times to knock between shovels;
It is important! If the child choked, but coughs and cries – it means that he can breathe and do massage of a breast and artificial respiration is still premature.
It is necessary to apply the following method to children of teenage age:
- To rise behind the back of the child;
- To clasp it with hands (hands have to meet under a thorax of the teenager, one hand compressed in a fist has to adjoin to the child's stomach, – strong to seize with other hand the first by a wrist);
- To make several sharp pressings – breakthroughs.
Unconscious
What to do if the child choked and fainted? This situation more dangerous, your main task is to wait for ambulance and to provide at least the minimum air flow in lungs. For this purpose it is necessary:
- To lay it sideways;
- It is careful to throw back the head (that the chin was raised). This action will straighten an air duct, and if it is completely not blocked by a foreign matter, it will work;
- To check breath each ten minutes. To watch that the kid moved less – important not to break the developed balance.
In case breath stopped, and doctors in way, to begin to make artificial respiration alternately with indirect massage of heart and to do it up to arrival of doctors.
In the course of assistance commensurate the forces of the child with age to avoid fractures of edges and other consequences.
The child choked: the forbidden actions
It is necessary to remember what never should be done. If the child choked and first aid is necessary for him, then it is impossible:
- to knock on a back of the child who sits or costs. These can aggravate situation even more: the foreign matter will pass further away on a nasopharynx, blocking breath;
- with a force to knock on a back (especially the baby) – it is possible to injure internals;
- to try to open by force a mouth and to grope a foreign matter (that is often tried to be done if the child choked with food) – so you will frighten the kid and fingers will push this body even more deeply.
We sum up the result: if the child choked, our actions are as follows:
- not to panic;
- to cause by phone of doctors;
- to help the victim one of the ways considered by us, at failure – to keep breath before arrival of doctors;
- in couples lack of breath, unconsciousness of the kid – to perform CPR.
Whether you know? In desperate situations to save life to the person, the doctor can carry out tracheotomy – nadrezt a perstneshchitovidny membrane under Adam's apple and to insert a tubule, a ball pen, etc. into an opening.