For Leonor Jofre, a pediatrician at University Hospital of the University of Chile, all accidents involving children are preventable with adult supervision. And remember that small are “curious and unfamiliar risks.” Therefore emphasizes that education and parental supervision are key. He adds that the most frequent accidents occur at home and in transport. Accidents are a cause of death in infants. To avoid recommends:
At home:
- Having bars on the windows
- Put caps on doors to prevent closing
- That the bathroom doors can be opened from outside
- Leave out of reach of small ornaments, even the batteries.
- Keep medicines stored in high places inaccessible to children
- Save as liquid paraffin, turpentine or other cleaner and ideally well sealed up
- Put high fences around swimming pools and always be supervised by an adult. Jofre said that the ideal “is to teach them to float and / or swimming from kids”
- In the case of bicycles, they must be appropriate to the size of the infant and they should always wear a helmet and go with an adult.
- Supervision by an adult when the child is bathed in the tub or use the shower, the important thing is to be permanently with him, because “a little water in the child’s face is enough.”
- Keep away from small stoves, especially if they are of paraffin
- For babies, cribs must have a railing at least 60 centimeters in height so difficult for them to get off. Also, if you have bars, they can not have more than six inches between them.
- Do not put toys with strings near preferable hang
- If you sleep in bed, which is petite for falling.
What to do if the children …
Tighten finger
- Observe for wounds, or increased volume
- Put them in cold water
- See if painful to move, in case of increasing volume, deformity or pain when move or a deep wound, take the nearest Emergency Service
- Moving to an emergency room immediately
- Moving to an emergency service
- Ideally be named and the presentation of the drug, remember if the number of tablets that had to determine the amount per kilo of weight and see if it is ingested in toxic level.
Leonor Jofre, a pediatrician at University Hospital of the University of Chile, said that higher-risk drugs are antidepressants and antipsychotics effects at cardiac arrhythmias that can lead to cardiac arrest.
Another important drug is acetaminophen, as it is widely used ys found in almost every home, in large doses can cause liver damage severe enough to cause liver failure if not treated in time may require liver transplantation, there is an antidote that counteracts this effect, so it is important to consult quickly even emergency service.
If it fell into the pool
- Take it out quickly
- Start resuscitation by the person best equipped with nose mouth ventilation and external cardiac massage. Ideally, if someone knows there is a pool resuscitation because “the sooner you start the resuscitation, the better the prognosis,” said Jofre.
- The pool should be protected by high fences, with a door that is not easy to open out by children. Every time they approach must be accompanied by an adult or responsible teenager, who can swim.
- The ideal is to be taught to float and swim as soon as possible.
- Children should always use floats and wings.