FIRST AID OF MINOR ACCIDENTS IN CHILDREN

Accidents of minor often occur when we perform daily activities, including in children with a variety of play activities which are still high then it becomes usually if they often occur minor accidents.

As parents are must be respond to this problem because important for provide treatment with aim to preventing the possibility of condition became more serious before contacting the family doctor.

First aid of minor accidents, as follows :

1. Cracked lips or blisters.
To reduce to feel pain can use chunks of ice cubes. If large enough wound and still a lot bleeding that out about a quarter of hour after the accident, immediately contact your doctor for get specific medical action.

2. Wound on the inside of the mouth or tongue.
To reduce the pain and stop for the bleeding can use chunks of ice cubes. If bleeding occurs spontaneously and did not stop so the press with careful on the wound using sterile gauze. Injuries that caused by sharp object so that the bleeding did not stop within 10 - 15 minutes after the accident, should immediately contact a doctor for get medical act.

3. Teeth escape.
If permanent teeth escape when the child fell, hit the floor or hard object should be immediately wash the tooth with water flow. Hold the tooth in the crown no on root, on condition possible and made soon so the teeth can be planted back into early place. If the milk teeth escape, no required this effort because teeth of baby will grow and replace the permanent teeth. Approximately 30 - 45 minutes after treatment immediately to the doctor for know there is / no part of teeth that remain in the gums. Holes of teeth also require checked to prevent infection.

4. Broken teeth.
Clean your child's mouth with warm water to remove dirt from the mouth, check whether there is / no part of broken tooth that remain in the gums and cold compresses to the wound part with chunks of ice to reduce swelling of the gums that often accompanies a broken tooth.

5. Foreign objectsthat ingest.
If foreign object that swallowed are not too deep and is still visible but children are afraid to remove this object, can be handled by sweeping the mouth of child's with using a bent finger and then reach it's with careful but do it fast motion. For foreign object ingested too deep, you should immediately bring to the doctor to reduce the possibility of object enter deeper again that causes difficulty in breathing.

6. Epistaxis.
Children in position of stand leaned forward slightly to prevent the blood enter into the esophagus, and press gently the nose during 5 minutes. Try to keep the child quiet and not cry, because if the child is crying bleeding will continue. If prolonged bleeding, cover hole the nose with gauze blocking the blood vessels in the nose. If these attempts have not succeeded in stopping the bleeding immediately contact a doctor for a medical act better.

7. Foreign body in the nose.

• Sign recognizable if there is a foreign object with / without accidentally in the child's nose, as follows :
• Hard to breathe through the nose
• There was bad smell
• Sometimes there is bleeding in the nose

Initial step look at the hole the nose, if the foreign body seemed take with fingers. Let's not use sharp object to take the foreign object, because it can injure the wall of hole the nose when the children sudden to move the head, or just pushing the foreign object enter deeper again. If foreign object is difficult in taken, ask your child to blow his nose like a waste snot. If a foreign object that inserted in the form of paper or small items are usually easily for out, if this action has not succeeded, so before condition became worse should immediately contact the doctor.

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