Although a boy is very care and protected, you are very frequent that an object is taken to your mouth, mainly if you are small, or that you suffer an accident that you cause you an interrupt from the entry of air to your lungs.These problems, they can end up getting complicated if they are not treated in the time and in the adapted way. Above all, the main thing is to maintain the calm. If you lose temper, you will put more nervous to the boy and then he/she won't be able to behave in the best way him neither.
The most habitual symptoms are the difficulty of breathing and the impossibility of to cry or to scream.
In the case of choking, this takes place when the respiratory channels are total or partially clogged up by an object that have been swallowed accidentally or a portion of food that you have not gone by the appropriate channel until the stomach.
How to act
- You arrange the boy on your knees with the head hanging up and hit it in the shoulder, among the scapulas.
- Make sure that you have been able to delete the obstruction.
- You repeat this maneuver up to 4 times.
- If the obstruction continuous test with the "maneuver Heimilch."
Heimilch Maneuvers
- You arrange the seated boy on your knees, with the leaning shoulder against your chest; surrounding you the abdomen with the arm, put the hand in grip with the thumb toward inside, between the navel and the breastbone.
- You hollow your other hand on the closed grip, maintaining the elbows toward you were.
- Make a quick pressure (firm and soft at the same time) up and toward inside. If this doesn't delete the obstruction, you call to the ambulance while you continue repeating the maneuver.
What you should make never, is to be about resuscitating it mouth to mouth before you can remove the causing object of an obstruction. Of being this way, the only thing that you will achieve is to push the object more below for the throat.
In case the boy has swallowed a small object that don't cause you obstruction, you will wait peacefully to that delete it for the natural means. You control the fecal matter during the following 36 hours. In any way, you are not to get scared if you are not ejected in an immediate way, since sometimes they can arrive to days to happen, and even weeks in the stomach without causing any drawback.
