Common Health Questions

Health Questions

What should I do when a child choked?
If a choking child, you need to quickly assess the situation, to see how they can best help.
This information applies to infants less than one year. For more information on adults and older children, to see what I need to do if someone choked?
Choking occurs when the airway is suddenly blocked by a man, so they can not breathe. Your airways are partially or completely blocked. In children, asthma is often caused when they put small objects in their mouths, which then get stuck. It can also be caused by remaining food.
Suffocation in infants up to one year of age

A child who suffocates and be disappointed not to cry, cough or breathe measure.
Does the face of the lowest of the child down on the forearm or thigh, with their heads. Support the head.
Enter up to five back blows trademarks child between the shoulder blades with the heel of your hand. (Talon between the palm and wrist.)
To check stop after each race, if the lock is released. Look into the child's mouth and remove any obvious obstruction. Do not insert your finger into the baby's mouth, if you can not see and you can reach the castle. You can go further.
If the airway is still blocked, and five breast directions (see below) were obtained.
Stop after each print to see if the lock is released.
If the respiratory system of the child, however, after three cycles back slaps and chest area, you should secure:
dial 999 for an ambulance immediately. Do not let your child - you take him the phone with you
Continuing the series of back blows and chest until help arrives
Chest pushes for children under one year of age

Children at the age of one year, chest thrusts in emergency situations are used to remove blocking their airways. Important: Do not use abdominal thrusts for children under one year.
Li child along the forearm low on his back, his head. Supports the back and head.
Enter up to five chest. With two fingers, press inward and upward (in the head) against the sternum of the child, a finger width below the nipple line.
Check that the lock removed after each shock, watching the child's mouth and remove any obvious obstruction. Do not insert your finger into the baby's mouth, if you can not see and reach the blockage, as you push further.
Complications

After airways child some equipment deleted sometimes caused the blockage remain and lead to complications later. If the child has a persistent cough or difficulty swallowing, you see, was a doctor immediately. You have to get the baby in & E, if taken during the hours of GP, NHS walk-in center or doctor.