The first sign of child poisoning


The child was cheerful and cheerful, but suddenly became pale and falls asleep on the run. What to do? Perhaps this is the first sign of a child's poisoning with household chemicals or medications. We can justify ourselves as we please, but the fact remains that most of the child's poisonings occur through parental guilt. Forgotten on the kitchen table, for some reason a solvent poured into the bottle from under the lemonade - it is our negligence provoking the emergency, and the baby is moved by natural curiosity or the desire to imitate the elders. Do not forget that until a certain age the test for the taste of objects falling into the field of view is a physiological act of knowing the world around them. And then everything depends on the size of the find. In children up to the age of three, the reflex works: all that has got into the mouth is swallowed - even if it is bitter and not tasty. Unfortunately, this also determines the high incidence of poisoning by household chemicals or medical drugs among toddlers. The first sign of child poisoning is nausea, dizziness, pale skin, vomiting, pain in the stomach.

Grandmother's medication
The doctors say that the most common poisonings of the child are medicamentous. What is the special "demand" of the younger generation? Most often these are sweet vitamins, antipyretic agents in syrups and various drugs from pressure taken by our grandmothers or grandfathers. After all, they are, as a rule, "at hand" - on the bedside table, in a bag, in the kitchen or in the bathroom. Accordingly, the baby playing in the grandmother's room can easily get to the drugs. Do not leave medicines on open surfaces, because the house is not a pharmacy, and the table is not a showcase.
You need to know! Taking large doses of multivitamins is not safe. From an overdose, both in children and adults can develop toxic skin lesions (a variety of toxicodermia), liver and pancreas, which is the first sign of a child's poisoning.

Safety rules in the house
Because of the prevalence of domestic poisoning in intensive medicine, a separate branch - toxicology - was created in due time. Doctors who have been engaged in childhood poisonings for a long time came to the conclusion that simple measures are enough for their prevention!
1. Accustom the home to the fact that drugs should be stored only in the medicine cabinet, which tightly closes and is in a place inaccessible to the child.
2. Do not call pills candies, even if the karapuz capricious and does not want to take them. Prohibit relatives from pouring or pouring medicines from the original package and do not do it yourself.
3. Try not to take medicine in the presence of crumbs, because children always copy our actions. Do not leave the baby alone in the bathroom: he will always find and "prisrihoduet" bright packaging of powder.

Liquid in a bottle
The second place in the sad list of the first signs of poisoning the child is poisoning with household chemicals: detergents for dishes, glass cleaners, washing powders, solvents and bleaches. To get severe poisoning, it is not necessary to use a large amount of the substance: sometimes the baby can lick the cap from a beautiful vial of aggressive liquid. With saliva, alkali or acid enters the stomach, causing mucous membrane burns at the same time.
Work out the rule: the younger the child, the higher must be stored household chemicals. As a child grows regularly, explain to him how dangerous games with similar means are. This will save you from trouble.

With mother's milk
All nursing mothers know about the need to adhere to certain rules of nutrition during lactation, because through breast milk all substances go directly to the baby's body. Also, some medicines may fall into the milk. In medical practice, there are cases of poisoning infants with medicines taken by a nursing mother. This does not mean that you should sacrifice your health and do not take medications at all. However, during the lactation period, the intake of any medication must be agreed with the doctor. "Dangerous" drugs are not so many: they include some antibiotics, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, and also means of pressure.

If mum needs to be treated . The way out is: the doctor will choose the most safe drug or adjust the dose and time of admission. In extreme cases, recommend that during the therapy, the baby should be fed with a mixture, and the milk should be decanted.
Mom confused
We are all human beings, which means that we all err. It happens that a tired mother at night among the bottles on the bedside table chooses the wrong one: for example, instead of Espumizan vitamin D. Or inattentiveness gives the baby the wrong dose of the drug. Do not measles yourself! If the error occurred, it must be fixed immediately. Try to give first aid to the crumb and call 03!
A little trick: in order not to confuse medicines, put them in different envelopes, each of which conditionally denote the spectrum of action of medicines. You are unlikely to be able to mix up the inscriptions "Vitamins" and "From the tummy".

What can you do by yourself
It is difficult to cope with acute poisoning at home. If the reception of a dangerous drug does occur, then, as a rule, it requires medical support, medical supervision and laboratory monitoring of certain indicators of blood and urine. However, first aid is in your competence. The main thing - do not panic! You can do a lot. If you see traces of chewed pills - wash your mouth. Well, if you immediately call the baby to vomit: in this case, most drugs do not have time to suck. But remember: categorically it is impossible to wash the stomach by itself of young children (up to a year) and carapoys in unconscious condition, and also if you suspect any aggressive liquids! After washing the stomach, always give the crumb a single age dose of any sorbent (activated charcoal, Enterosgel, Smektu), put it in a crib and call an ambulance. Waiting for the doctor to offer the baby a clean water without gas and try to calm him down.

It is important! Do not panic. Determine how many tablets a child could eat or how much liquid to drink. If you have to go to the hospital, take with you packages of the substance or medication taken.