Showing posts with label accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accidents. Show all posts

9/25/2008

Artificial respiration in case of accident

In the event of an accident in the water, we must act immediately and, if the child is not breathing, give artificial respiration.

Place the small on the floor, face up. Tilt your head back to open the throat. We have to see, first of all, there is no foreign body in his mouth.

SI has swallowed water, it is important to bend at the waist so that it can expel. The person who will make the artificial breathing air and inspire you should take a deep breath. Then, put your mouth on the mouth of the small and blowing strongly, while it clogs the nose.

See if it moves your chest. We have to repeat the operation breathe air about 20 times per minute if the child is small.

Have on hand a book of first aid, it will be imperative on vacation.

Accidents on the water with children

Facing the water, either by sea, river, lake or pool, a little prevention. The main thing is, of course, do not lose sight of the children not a single second.

Cramps: They emerge suddenly, producing a sharp pain and muscle immobilized, so can be dangerous if the child is not swimming where foot. We must explain that, if it occurs, must stop for swimming and floating, trying to relax the muscles and move with great caution in the opposite direction to the contraction. Upon leaving the water, simply a massage, and if it persists, apply heat and give it to drink water with salt or sugar.

Cortes digestion: To avoid them, we must ensure that after the meal expect these "heinous ninety minutes." However, the problem is not so much digestion as the sudden change in temperature. When you are doing digestion, the blood is concentrated in the stomach and intestine, and to enter half cold, which has rapidly spread to balance the temperature.

This can produce a swoon. To prevent this, we have to get used to shower before, if possible, or come slowly into the water, mojándose first abdomen, wrists and neck. If the court digestion occurs, it should be kept to a small reanimated and watched until the doctor.

It is not advisable to remain too long followed into the water. The bath favors the prolonged decline in blood glucose, and this may cause some dizziness. Nor should they fail to bathe the body with cold or sweaty after playing in full sun.

Living Waters: The friction with them and causes inflammation, rashes and itching. When sting, the pain is intense, and also can appear blistering fever, chills and fainting. What is immediately clean the bite and immobilize the affected area, applying hot compresses, and administer an anti-inflammatory ointment containing antihistamines. It can be a pain to the child.

Spider sea and bay: Both bites, which could be avoided if taking the children with sandals closed, producing a sharp pain. We must act to apply an antiseptic, removing the stinger, in the case of line, and immobilizing the foot in the hottest water that can withstand the child, for 30 to 60 minutes. It is recommended that some analgesic and anti-inflammatory.

In the case of the sting from scratch, we will have to consult with the doctor, because it can be a useful antibiotic ointment to the wound is not infected.
Finally, as general advice, it is important to always carry a medicine chest, have your card Welfare or private medical institute and know where we stand, what is the nearest hospital and where are the nearest pharmacy. But above all, save many scares us if we monitor the children constantly, because with them, always, is worth preventing.

How to heal wounds, falls and injuries in children...

In the summer children are prone to injuries, scrapes, cuts.

Cuts on his feet: We already know that it is usual to be in the field or on the beaches, glass and sharp objects. In the event of an accident, the first thing you should do is thoroughly washed the wound with soap and water. If it is not very deep, just this hygienic. If the thing is more serious, it is important to go to the doctor.

Scrapes and wounds: We have to wash them very well, with plenty of soap and running water. Check there are no stones, glass or traces of dirt, because if the wound is closed with something inside, you can easily infect. Allow to air dry.

If the wound is more serious, after washing we must put a clean bandage, but not implement anything before you see the doctor. Attend to it immediately if it is serious and profound, if necessary by putting the anti, if he has not been properly vaccinated, according to the official plan. If bleeding, pressure with a clean cloth or gauze.

Hematomas: We must take care not move much because the affected area well before the blood clot and internal bleeding will cover less. Apply cold compresses or ice for the swelling down and soothe the pain.
Scratches and blisters: The kids have their feet very sensitive and any new shoes may suffer scrapes and blisters.

Since then, is not serious, but heavy, because both the beach and in the pool or the river, there is no child that endurance without being all day with their feet wet. So do not dry up the blisters and chafing are slow to heal.

Sprains and strains: You have to immobilize the joint with rest and implement a comprehensive anti-inflammatory ointment. None of bandages. We have to go to the doctor.

Fractures: The most urgent need is to immobilize the area and go to the doctor. If it occurs in one arm, should be placed in "sling" to support the palm of the hand in the belly, and put on the outside surface of the arm something that will serve as a pillow protector (a folded towel or a table), holding it with two a tied bandages above and below the other point of divide.

If it is the leg was immobilized with two straight boards or sticks and is sold without squeezing, above. We must take the utmost care to move the injured to the doctor.

5/18/2008

Realities and lies on the belt of surety

A lot of people think that, when taking place a shock, to be caught by the belt of surety is worse than to be discharged of the vehicle. This is completely dummy, since to be discharged of the vehicle is more dangerous 25 times. With belt, the possibilities to remain conscious they are bigger.

Others think that they could arrive to be caught if the vehicle caught fire or you were submerged in the water, what are also completely dummy. The belt of surety avoids the blows that produce unconsciousness. Also, this class of facts happens respectively in the 0,16 and 0,3% of the total of accidents.

You are who they sustain that you are not necessary to use the belt of surety in backside seats. These are completely aberrant: an occupant of the backside seat without belt, has many possibilities of being discharged of the vehicle and to increase the status of the front passengers.

Another error, they obtain it who they think that if they take short trips, they don't need to use the belt of surety. The certain thing is that, the accident is always unexpected without importing the quantity of scanned kilometers.

The belt of surety is as necessary in the path as in the city, since in reduced speeds, the belt can mark the difference among being wounded or totally unhurt.

You are to also keep in mind that under normal conditions and with the arranged belt, one can play the board with the head, but in an accident, you avoid the passengers of the car to be said goodbye to. The belt of surety allows the mobility while they don't happen incidents.

And of course, you are not to stop to mention that, although the vehicle possesses airbag, you are necessary to use the belt, since the airbag doesn't substitute it, but rather they have different ends.

4/23/2008

The drops: you cause and modes of prevention

The enormous majority of the adults bigger than 60 years, they suffer a drop at least per month. This not always to a physical clearly estimable problem and hence, you are very important to be about to delimit the problem and to avoid it. When a grown-up suffers a loss of the balance followed by a drop and this repeats, it is usually frightened and to limit your exits or walks fearing that the event repeats again. This way, you don't only increase the risk that ésto happens, because you weaken your muscles, but rather you also cap your social life that are always counteractive from the psychological point of view. The certain thing is that the fears are not necessarily groundless; the drops can you turn accompanied by wounds or fractures, mainly in the women that are those more affected to this age by the osteoporosis. In consequence, the important thing is to pay carefulness to this type of accidents and mainly, to be about preventing them.

Physical causes that motivate the drops in the grown-ups exist. Some are friendly, other not so much, because they respond to a natural deterioration physique. But, methods that you/they help to withdraw the risk the most possible thing always exist.

The biggest adults usually take diverse medicines and the quantity and combination of these it can be the origin of the problem. You are important that the physician is the so much of all the medications that take the patient and your quantity.

The depression and other psychological problems, they usually take to delay the mobility and more and more difficult tornarla.

The problems articulares like the artrosis, the arthritis and your consequent pain and nuisances, the inferior members usually harden and to facilitate the drops. Medicines and effective treatments exist to counteract or to reduce the symptoms.

The debility of the muscles, due to long illnesses or the sedentarismo, they cause muscle weakness that should be diagnosed by a traumatólogo and treated.

The neurological affections or illnesses like Parkinson, the senile dementia or the cerebral thromboses, they can cause dizziness or fadings and they need a specific treatment with medicines.

The loss of the vision or hearing influences strongly in the mode of moving and in the possibility of suffering accidents. In general, these problems can be solved with headsets, glasses or ophthalmological operations.

You are important to also highlight that frequently, in the places where they happen the accidents you are in the own home. For ésto it is elementary to control those barriers that can block the movement and to cause drops, I eat the electric cables for example, the floor of the bathroom because it is usually wet or the to exit or to enter of the bathtub, the fact that you have good illumination, and if stairways exist in the house, you suit to cover them with a stuck carpet or some nonskid other material.