What to do if the child is choking and choking

The safety of the child should come first to the parents. Of course, every step of the baby can not be followed and anything can happen. If you can not avoid trouble, you need to know at least how to minimize its consequences.

We'll tell you what to do when the baby is choking. First. choking You need to provide immediately, on your own, without waiting for the ambulance to arrive. In this case, you can't delay.





The child choked on the first signs

1. The child can not cry, breathe air, try to scream, but the sound does not give out.
2. His eyes are wide open.
3. From the open mouth saliva is abundant.
4. The skin of the face turns red and blue.
5. The baby grabs his hands by the throat.

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What to do if the child choked

1. Raise the child’s arms to widen his airway and thus adjust breathing.
2. If the first option does not help, turn the baby down. Bend so that the head is below the chest. Pat him several times on the back between the shoulder blades with push-out movements.
3. You can lift him up by the legs. If the foreign object that is stuck inside is small enough, it will fall out. In the same case, it will help to call vomiting by pressing the root of the tongue.
   
   
   
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When a foreign object or piece of food gets stuck in the trachea, the child behaves somewhat differently: actively retracts the stomach, trying to gain air.

What to do in this case

1. Use the Heimlich method. Stand behind the child.
2. Put your arms around his waist.
3. Make a fist with one hand. Place it between your ribs and navel with your fingers inside.
4. Hold your fist with your second hand.
5. Open your elbows to the sides, press the baby's stomach in a bottom-up direction.
6. Rhythmically repeat this movement over and over again.
   
   
   
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What to do categorically cannot be done

1. Doctors do not recommend sticking your fingers in the larynx, too great a risk of pushing food even further. But sometimes to remove stuck hands - the only way that saves in such a critical situation. Provided that the other options providing first aid person can not use. You need to choose the method that works. Unfortunately, you can determine the most effective in a particular case only by trying everything.
   
   
   
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2. Show your child a panicked fear. The baby as a result of a chain reaction can be frightened even more by the parent and squeeze the throat in a spasm.
3. Try to push stuck food with other food.
   
   
   
   

Teach a growing child a culture of food. Tell him to chew food slowly, and talking at the table is unethical and unsafe. While the child is small, grind all the foods that you feed him in a blender. And make sure his toys don't have too much detail. So you can protect the baby from harming yourself as much as possible.

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