There are usually 5 forms of accidental ingestion
Solid foreign objects
Babies often like to put coins, buttons, waste batteries, rings, pen caps, walnuts, and other foreign objects in their mouths to play with, which may be swallowed into the gastrointestinal tract or retained in the esophagus, i.e., gastrointestinal foreign objects or esophageal foreign objects.
First Aid Points
1 If the foreign body is small in size, it usually does not show any special symptoms and does not require treatment, and the foreign body will be discharged with the stool within 1 to 2 days.
2 If the foreign body is large in size, or if the foreign body is a sharp foreign body, such as a large pin, chicken bone, fish bone, etc., it must be treated in the hospital. Foreign bodies in the esophagus can be life-threatening if not removed in time.
3 Toxic, corrosive foreign objects, such as button batteries, etc., can damage the esophagus and gastrointestinal mucosa, or cause toxic absorption of poisonous substances poisoning, must be sent to the hospital as soon as possible to ask the doctor to help remove.
Preventive measures
Don't let the baby play too small, easy to contain into the mouth of small items;
Don't let the baby eat food with bones or hard shells;
Replacement of waste button batteries discarded in a timely manner;
Home of the small items, such as coins, glass balls, buttons, tablets, small toys, such as to be properly collected. Some small and hard food, such as peanuts, walnuts and other dried fruit food, also do not place at random.
Misuse of drugs or toxic food
Babies often eat poisonous substances such as rat poison, insecticides or food contaminated with pesticides; or take medicines wrongly when the dose of drugs, overdose, or accidentally eat the drugs used by adults; or eat poisonous mushrooms, moldy sugarcane, sprouted potatoes, etc. Food poisoning occurs.
First Aid Essentials
1 Figure out what poison or drug your baby took by mistake, how much and for how long. This is helpful for both your emergency treatment and the doctor's treatment.
2 Before taking the baby to the hospital, you stimulate the baby's throat with your finger to make the poison retained in the stomach vomit out as soon as possible and reduce the absorption of the poison.
3 The baby accidentally took poisonous rat poison, pesticides, insecticides, etc. There will be nausea, convulsions, spasms and other symptoms, should be immediately sent to the hospital for resuscitation, and take with you the packaging of the poison or drug, so as to identify the nature of the poison, and targeted detoxification treatment.
4 Let the baby drink a lot of water on the way to the hospital to dilute the poison in order to induce vomiting. However, to prevent vomit asphyxiation, vomit should not be induced by the baby has been unconscious.
Preventive measures
Pharmaceuticals should be kept out of the baby's reach;
Baby's medication should be taken strictly according to the instructions and doctor's orders;
Poisonous rat poison should be put in the baby's inaccessible place, and keep a close watch on the baby;
Attention to food safety, do not consume poisonous mushrooms, moldy sugarcane, and food from unknown sources.
Misuse of corrosive liquids
Such as the misuse of strong acids and alkalis, such as detergents, cleaning detergents, disinfectants and antiseptics and other items, usually with a certain degree of corrosiveness, can cause oral, esophageal and gastric mucous membrane burns, resulting in localized ulcers, perforation, bleeding, the formation of scarring, and even lead to esophageal stenosis and other serious consequences.
First aid points
1 Accidental ingestion of strong acid, strong alkali poison should be strictly prohibited vomiting. Immediately let the baby take milk, soy milk, egg white, etc., to reduce the corrosion of acidic and alkaline liquid on the gastrointestinal tract.
2 For strong alkaline substances, immediately take vinegar, lemon juice, orange juice, etc., to weaken the alkaline.
3 For strong acids, take soda, soapy water, raw egg whites to neutralize the acids.
4 For iodine or Lysol and other drugs with strong stimulating and corrosive effects, immediately take thick rice soup or batter and other starch-containing liquids by mouth to reduce the damage to the gastric mucosa.
5 Montmorillonite powder to water into a suspension orally, isolated corrosive substances on the mucosal damage.
Preventive measures
Never put detergents, strong acid, strong alkali or toxic liquids in food containers, so as to avoid the baby mistakenly as a drink to drink; such items should be placed in the baby can not reach the place.
Potentially toxic items
Cigarette butts (containing nicotine), crayons (which may contain lead), mercury in thermometers, mothballs, kerosene, ink, desiccant, and other items are usually not toxic, and there is no need to worry about a small amount of accidental ingestion, but if the amount is large enough, then further treatment is needed.
First aid points
1 Immediately clear the baby's mouth of residual foreign objects.
2 Let the baby drink tea or water, press the root of the tongue to induce vomiting.
3 Petroleum products such as gasoline and kerosene cannot be induced to vomit.
4 Consult a doctor to decide on further disposal.
Preventive measures
Do a good job of daily monitoring, timely stop the baby's misuse of food; inedible items should be properly stored and never put in hand.
Respiratory foreign body
Baby eat peanuts, melon seeds, jelly or foreign objects in the mouth to play, suddenly choking, coughing, shortness of breath, cyanosis and other conditions, the prediction of these foods or foreign objects into the airway, should be scrambled to send the baby to the hospital in a timely manner to rescue.
First aid points
1 Punching back method Applicable to infants. Lift the baby's feet with the left hand, make him inverted, and slap the baby's back with the palm of the right hand for several times, so that the foreign body can be loosened and dislodged to spit out.
2 Pat the back method for larger babies. Let him lie on the rescuer's knee, head down, support his chest, pat his back several times, coughing out the foreign body.
3 finger picking throat method Larger foreign objects stay in the throat, can be used to pick out, or stimulate the root of the tongue to induce vomiting.
4 Heimerlake method The rescuer holds the baby's waist from behind, and presses the upper abdomen with the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of both hands, and squeezes the upper abdomen backward and upward, and then relaxes after the pressure is pressed, and repeats the process rhythmically, in order to form an impact airflow, and flush out the foreign body. This method was invented by Dr. Heimer Laike in the United States, so it is called the Heimer Laike technique.
Preventive measures
Not to give the baby to eat peanuts, melon seeds, nuts and other nuts;
Don't let the baby will be small toys in the mouth to play;
Give children under the age of 5 years old to feed the medicine, will be mashed up tablets to be taken;
The baby's mouth when there is food, try not to tease him to laugh, and don't let him jump, to prevent the food accidentally sucked into the airways;
The baby's mouth, try not to make him smile, don't let him jump, to prevent the food accidentally fall down! Avoid storing small objects, such as buttons, pins, and pen caps, in your baby's range of motion.