Sample survey of accidental injuries account for 0-14 year-olds the first cause of death; suffocation death which also accounted for a large proportion. Inhalation of foreign bodies in children is the major cause of death asphyxiation, high-risk groups for 0-4 years old. We often hear of the foreign body can lead to reports of child suffocation.
People can not help asking, why do children so easily into the tracheal foreign body? When this happens, the parents how to do?
Each throat esophagus
Parts of the throat is "airway" and "esophageal" the interchange of gas inhalation and swallowing of food in ways we each go their own Road. Airway (larynx, trachea, bronchi) for gas is passed, no room for any liquid, solid material to enter. Once inside, it referred to as "airway foreign bodies", ranging from choking, suffocation is heavy; Similarly, under normal circumstances, the gas does not enter the esophagus and stomach. If you hit the volume can also lead to symptoms for a long time.
And manage the traffic diversion is the "epiglottis" - cavity opening a tongue-shaped wood cover. Normal breathing, the epiglottis to speak up when open, free access to airway gases; swallowing things down when covered cavity, so that water and food does not enter the airway. Epiglottis triage function by function of the nervous system of automatic control of swallowing reflex, and infants and young children due to swallowing reflex function have yet to develop a sound, it is the most prone to solids into liquid airway "accident."
Fatal asphyxia in an instant
The event of accidents, in serious cases can lead to suffocation. The so-called suffocation, that is, the blockage or occlusion of the respiratory tract, inhaled air can not carry out gas exchange, people have died due to acute hypoxia. General asphyxia heart will stop a few minutes.
The daily lives of the most common source is the suffocation of airway foreign body. Foreign body airway accidents in children under 3 years of age. Children like to shell the nuts, melon seeds, peanuts, sugar can not even eat the ball of the glass balls, coins, buttons, and some small toys mouth, tears, laughter, mistaken easily inhaled inspiratory airway. More recently reported that asphyxia caused by aspiration jelly, it is worth extra vigilance.
Move the spot to rescue asphyxia
Foreign body airway caused by asphyxia, can not breathe, and almost no chance of emergency admission. At this time most in need of parents, nanny, kindergarten teachers and the presence of other people, local rescue to be effective:
● to encourage the foreign body asphyxia caused by coughing and more stuck in the throat, especially as the film, jelly-type foreign body, usually by inhalation of only a portion of cavity, as well as the sound of the door, this time to encourage the child coughing loudly, and sometimes foreign body can be expectorate.
● dump shoot down the back, such as young children suspected airway foreign body aspiration, it should be lean upper body 60 degrees to save face in the elbow, the head down, put his hands to rescue those who beat their back, with gravity, to foreign bodies from .
● the impact of abdominal pressure and sometimes a cough, the Gas expectorate and not inhaled, the lungs become less gas, expectorate small flow, then to another abdominal pressure and increase the impact of the diaphragm to increase the airflow expectorate, the foreign body spray out. Practice is to allow children to stand forward, in the subsequent rescue overlapping with both hands together on the abdomen in children, impact extrusion, so that increased abdominal pressure, diaphragm elevation, increased thoracic pressure, have a strong airflow to the lungs will be out of foreign bodies from the trachea.
● Removal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation if the foreign body, obstruction of ease, the patient is breathing and heartbeat have stopped, artificial respiration should be immediately squeeze the heart and chest.
Precautionary measures to stay away from asphyxia
This method is only a contingency measure, it is best simply do not have access to - usually the parents should be nipped in the bud:
● Do not give young children play buttons, coins, glass balls, rubber toys mouth and smaller;
● Children should not eat the Whole, seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, broad beans, such as food, children can not play shell to eat before the adults and fruit should be peeled peeling break;
● can not eat jelly endocytosis block the entrance to his eat bowl chopped into small pieces;
● Some parents of children of drug refusal, to take and hold the nose drench solution, which is very dangerous: and hold the nose, mouth breath child, vulnerable to airway inhalation medicine;
● Do not eat the children talk to him, let alone making him cry, tease him laugh, so as not to be mistaken for absorption of food.