When a child is poisoned with a drug, it does not matter whether there are any symptoms, and whether they appear instantly. A number of drugs with an overdose do not immediately cause the body to react. The child can safely spend several hours without feeling impaired, but then his health will deteriorate very sharply. Therefore, if the child has been poisoned with drugs for medicinal purposes, you must ask for medical help the same hour: either deliver the baby yourself to the hospital, or (if there is no possibility of transporting quickly and without delay) to call an ambulance.
Once you notice that the child has taken medications, you need to start to act. How can you notice this? Elementary: if you went into the room, and a pharmacy is scattered around the child (or some specific medication from which the lid is ripped, which is torn or whose remains are on the floor), and the child's mouth is soiled in the medicine - most likely poisoning drugs still happened. Start acting.
First, assess the overall condition of the poisoned child - in particular, first of all, take care of the heart system. If you notice that the child does not breathe and does not show signs of life - start immediately cardiopulmonary resuscitation. If the heart beats, the pulse is probed, but the baby is not conscious - put it on its side, as stable as possible. Carefully examine the oral cavity - if you suddenly noticed that there were few (or many) medicines left, try removing it.
If the baby is conscious, and from the moment he swallowed a huge dose of medications, it did not take half an hour - then it is urgent to try to induce vomiting. This can be done in the usual way, although in a situation with the child it will be difficult. It is necessary to give a child milk or simple water (drink about two glasses), then, holding the baby tightly with one hand, with two fingers of the free hand, enter the oropharynx of the baby, as deep as you can, and stir them. If for some reason (for example, accrued nails) you can not make it with your fingers - then use an ordinary spoon, pushing it onto the root of the tongue. You need to remember that even if the child does not express a desire to succumb to your actions, even if it breaks out, you still have to do all these manipulations and force up vomiting. Since in this case the health of the child is more important than his hysterics.
When the child stops the emetic process, you need to give him activated carbon in the right dose. Lay the crumb on the barrel, calm down and give him tea or milk. If all your attempts to cause the baby to vomit have been vain and vain - then still drink it with milk or tea, after giving him activated charcoal.
When medical workers arrive, you need to show the packaging of the medicine your child ate. If you do not know what exactly caused the poisoning of the baby, then show all those medicines that the baby could have access to, or that were damaged or scattered by the baby before it was poisoned. If the poisoning occurred in a teenager with suicidal goals, and you found a death letter - you must save it.
There are a number of situations in the case of which it is impossible to induce vomiting in a child who has been poisoned. First of all, of course, this applies to situations in which the child is unconscious. After all, vomit masses, he can just choke. The second situation is if the poisoning occurred more than half an hour ago - then there is no reason to induce vomiting. The third situation that prohibits this is that the child has swallowed alkali, acids or a product containing oil (for example, gasoline or kerosene).
It is also important to remember that activated charcoal is your best assistant for poisoning with drugs. We can say that it is more effective and necessary than even vomiting. Therefore, if you induce vomiting, you do not get it, or if you are afraid to try to induce vomiting in the child - then do not hesitate and give him activated charcoal. The dose of activated carbon for acute poisoning should be one gram per kilogram of the child's weight . That is, if your child weighs, for example, 10 kg, then he will need 10 grams of coal - and this is twenty or forty tablets, depending on the dosage - o, 25 or 0, 5 g. Do not be afraid to exaggerate the dose a little - activated carbon is practically impossible to poison. Therefore, try to give his child as much as he can swallow. If after that the child has vomited coal pills - give them again.
Do not use activated charcoal if the child is poisoned by acid, alkali or preparations that contain iron. In the case of the latest drugs, doctors allocate a special first-aid algorithm. So, the first two items remain the same - you need to try to induce vomiting of the baby, then give him milk. Then let him drink a couple of proteins of raw eggs. The last step is to take one and a half teaspoons of soda (food), dissolve it in a glass of water - and let it drink to the child.
Perhaps the most important thing in this business is proper prevention, which would help to avoid accidents.
1. When you are prescribed a medicine - consult a doctor about the dosage.
2. Medicines must be stored in original packaging.
3. They need to be hidden where the child can not cover (high in the locker, the door of which closes).
4. Check the expiry date of the drugs, expire the expired.
5. Throw it out so that it can not be pulled out of the bucket to the same child or, for example, a home dog.
6. Carefully check whether you give the medicine to the baby.
7. Adult medications are not for children.
8. Do not drink drugs when they are young - they can start to imitate you.
9. The medicine is given in a well-lit room!
10. Give the child a medicine - then hide it away.
11. You can not call drugs in words that are associated with something tasty (sweets, juices).