Of course, it is hardly necessary to explain to you right now, as far as really dangerous respiratory tract burns, tongue and eyes - these bodies are very gentle, so the impact on them of high temperatures is not something that is undesirable and even threatening! Let's try to consider separately all these severe cases with burns in order to understand: how to help your child, if something bad has happened to him, God forbid.
Burning of the respiratory tract
How can an airway burn occur? This is quite understandable: this danger threatens the child in case he inhaled the hot air (steam). Especially dangerous in this sense are fires that burn out indoors, sometimes such burns occur during inhalations or even in a sauna or bath.
How to recognize airway damage with air? First, the child's breathing becomes difficult, he suffers from coughing with attacks, his voice becomes hoarse. In addition, the baby feels pain while swallowing saliva and in the chest.
Of course, such symptoms can also indicate a burn of the respiratory tract. However, if they occur in conjunction with other events: eg, fires, inhalation, after the bath, in the presence of burns also on the front of the neck or, if scorched hairs on the neck and nose or bleached eyebrows - it is immediately obvious that this is an obvious burn.
Burning of the respiratory tract is especially dangerous because it can provoke swelling of the mucous membranes. As you know, in this case it is almost impossible to breathe, so there is a risk of suffocation. You should show your baby as soon as possible, even if you are not sure that there is a burn.
While you wait for the arrival of physicians, move to fresh air and ask the child to take a position of the body in which it is easy for him to be and, most importantly, to breathe. The child should not talk, and you do not leave him alone for a second.
Burn the tongue
It is not difficult to guess that such burns occur when a very hot liquid or food gets into your mouth.
What do you need to do right after the baby burns? Tip one: you must immediately cool the damaged area. The easiest way, of course, is to cool with water: either dial it directly into your mouth and, holding it a bit, spit out, or simply put the tongue under the stream of running water. You can also get an ice cube from a freezer or a frozen berry and just suck them. The most pleasant way for a child to cool the tongue is ice cream, which can be licked for a long time. If you have preserved the gel that you once smeared the baby's gum, when his teeth crawled - you can use it.
Eye Burn
Receive thermal burn glazik child may if something very hot falls upon his eye (e.g., boiling water, or a drop of hot oil in a pan), or happens directly contact glazik something very hot (flame, a cigarette).
If almost all cases with burns there is a chance that everything will be and it will not harm the baby's health in general, thermal burn your eyes - it is always serious, so you can not hesitate to seek medical assistance.
What are the main signs that the baby got a thermal eye burn?
1) he feels severe pain;
2) the tears flow from the eyes;
3) the child begins to seem afraid of light;
4) it seems to the kid that something stuck in his eye;
5) eyelids and areas of the skin around the eyes also suffered from burns;
6) the cilia of the child are asleep.
The main thing in this business is timely and competent first aid, which you must provide as soon as possible while waiting for the ambulance.
It is necessary, as in the cases with other burns, to cool the damaged area with running water. There are several important nuances:
- You need to properly, but gently open the eye with a burn, pushing the eyelids with fingers wrapped in bandages;
- the water temperature should fluctuate within 12-18 degrees;
- cool the affected eye for 20 minutes;
- You can wash with a bottle by pouring water into a rubber pear or syringe (after removing the needle, of course) or straight from the tap (shower);
- flush the glazik in the direction from the outer corner - to the inner;
- Again, it is best to provide cooling with running water, but if this is not possible, then you need to collect water in the pelvis and dip your face there, while asking the child to sometimes blink.
1. After this procedure, drip the affected eye with a solution of antiseptic, designed specifically for the eyes.
2. Cover the child's eye with a clean cloth (the fabric should be sterile).
3. Take care of eyelids and skin around the eyes, smearing them with local medications.
Do not ignore the point about washing the glazier with water, even if it seems to you that the burn was very weak - yet it's necessary to cool it with water!
As for the symptoms that mean that you need to immediately show the injured baby to the doctor, then I would like to stop your attention on the following:
- the visual acuity of the child is reduced, dulled;
- More than 24 hours after the burn is received, the child complains that he feels a foreign object in his eye;
- the pain not only does not pass through the day, but it becomes even more unbearable;
- suddenly there were signs accompanying the development of eye infection (the eye was swollen and reddened, purulent mucus was secreted from it).
Be careful and teach your kids to take care of hot liquids and hot objects, because they can harm the health of crumbs!