According to statistics, the majority of fatal injuries occur in early childhood, when the child is completely helpless and caring for him is not an easy matter. Young parents are sure that misfortune can happen to anyone, but not with their beloved crumbs. Faith, of course, is very good, but life stubbornly says that trauma is the result of a parent error, a nonsense, and not just an accident! Here are examples.
Mom took the baby to her bed. I was drowsy, in a dream I "crushed" the crumb for myself and blocked my breath with my body. When she woke up, the baby was already blue ... Often, to take the baby, the mother gives him to play with a plastic bag, and she "hurries" to the kitchen for a minute. This "minutochki" is enough to make a witless person put a packet on his head or press a film to his face. The consequences can be the most sad. Very often injuries in the first months of a baby's life are associated with a fall. Mom calmly leaves the child on a changing table (or on the bed) - I'm sure he does not know how to turn over, sit down, crawl. But yesterday I did not know how, but today I learned! So he contrived ... And he was on the floor. Well, if everything ends only with bruises and bruises, but often even babies have brain injuries with concussion.
Unfortunately, mothers sometimes leave a child in a wheelchair unattended, believing that there he is safe. They forget that after six months the baby can already catch himself up, rise and fall out. Well, if your grown-up child can already crawl or "tread" on the balcony, then remove from there all the chairs, boxes and other items by which you can climb higher and hang from the railing. And in general, the balcony door should be on the hook, and at a level inaccessible to the kid.
After six months, the children are already quite active, a little more - and will start walking. But while they move very insecure, they grab for everything around them. Try to remove all unnecessary and dangerous things from the path of a young traveler! Strangely enough, children of the first year of life often suffer from burns, which is inflicted on them by a loving mother. In the burn department, children are caught, who were bought in hot water. The smaller the baby, the more sensitive is his skin to the effects of high temperatures. There are cases when mothers generously add potassium permanganate to the bath or by mistake of turpentine.
Children after a year very often overturn hot milk, tea. Burns face and oral mucosa baby can get with improperly administered inhalation. Doctors themselves are often advised to conduct this procedure for colds. Lovely mothers, dear grandmothers! Buy a special device for inhalation - it will cost you less than treating the baby from burns!
In winter, when it's cold, parents put a heating pad in a baby cot. Here is a case from life: a ten-year-old boy suffered from enuresis. Somehow during the application of the hot-water bottle the wire suddenly closed, the child was electrocuted. And how often, when heating the baby, do you put the reflector close to the bed? From a hot spiral, diapers can easily catch fire, and the child will get burns.
After a year, children become disinclined, all the time in motion. The elders try to stop them with harsh words: "Back off!", "Do not poke yourself!", "Do not pull in your mouth!" Everything is useless. After all, the movement, the cognition of the world are laid in the very nature of the little man. It is arranged to grab anything that lies badly, pulls into the mouth. In addition, his teeth are chopped! This is why stomatitis is so frequent at this age, which cause bitter tears and high fever. To avoid these troubles, wash toys, treat them with a 2% solution of soda. And inflamed gums do not hurt to disinfect with the same solution or solution of drugstore borax. Do not forget that the baby can pull in his mouth, not only a toy, but a beautiful pill. Medicines in the form of bright dragees like to eat and older children. Sometimes poisoning can be difficult to recognize immediately. I ate, for example, the child of an elenium or clonidine and was asleep. Only wakes up? So if your baby is quiet, too long asleep, does not want to wake up - be alert, is not knocking on the door trouble? More than 50% of all poisons poisoned by children in the first years of life. Basically it is poisoning with medications. And most mothers admit that in their accidents their own carelessness is to blame.
It makes no sense constantly to pull out a two-year-old baby, causing him to have a neurosis. Any requests not to touch grandmother's glasses, medications and so on have no meaning for a child of this age. Do not be angry in vain! Better protect him from possible dangers. This applies not only to sharp knives, forks, but also small buttons, sewing needles, as well as things, the inhalation of which can lead to death. In this regard, dangerous chocolate eggs with kinder-surprise, if there are hidden very small details of toys. If a foreign object has got into the throat of a baby, it is very important for parents not to get confused, the simplest thing is to raise it by the legs upside down and shake it a bit. Often this is enough to make a foreign object fall out.
First Aid
All adults should be able to provide first aid in case of injuries and accidents among children. However, in moments of anxiety, they are often lost, panicking. It is worth recalling the most banal things. With bruises, apply as soon as possible to the affected area cold (ice, coin, steel jar from the refrigerator). If the ankle is damaged, then lift the leg, place a platen under it so that there is no swelling. If you suspect a fracture, do not let the baby move and hurry to the doctor.
In case of burns, immediately stop contact with hot. For example, scalded feet - remove socks, cool the burn with cold water, you can drip alcohol, vodka on the burnt surface, so that their evaporation removes excessive heat. Do not use any ointments or oils in the first hours - they create a film, preventing excessive heat from leaving (the burn will intensify). If the burn is severe, urgently call an ambulance. It is best to all have in the home medicine cabinet an aerosol from a burn "Panthenol" or "Olesol", they are not cheap, but effective.
If the eyes of the child during the repair in the house got lime, you need to rinse them immediately, but not with water, but with a concentrated solution of sugar.
If suspected of poisoning, give your child plenty of water and activated charcoal (even a baby can give up to five tablets, pre-chopping them and dissolving in water). If this poisoning is not acids or alkali, then you can start rinsing, causing vomiting (pressing on the root of the tongue). No matter how trivial poisoning may seem, do not flatter yourself, some of the poisons have already absorbed into the body, so urgently call an ambulance.
Older children, unfortunately, are also prone to injury. Jumping from a swing, a fence, from a tree, they often overestimate their strength. Injuries, accidents among children 5-10 years is very much. And they, often, are much more serious than those of toddlers. That is why it is so important to bring up a healthy sense of self-preservation in the child from the earliest years. Show and tell him what leads to carelessness.