Infant Choking- How can you overcome them by providing the best first aid!!!!

Infant choking is the medical condition in which the infant is unable to breathe due to the blockage of the windpipe due to food or any dust particle. The choking in infant is an emergency condition; sometimes the partial blockage may threaten infant life.

Causes: Choking in young ones can be caused either by inhaling some food items, water, coin, mud, toy part, stone particle or tablet.

Symptoms: The infants suffer with the following symptoms like bluish coloration of the skin, throat, and suffocation, unable to breathe properly; the sternum is completely pulled inward. Pain in the chest region is common. The child cannot make a sound; sometimes he/she may faint, coughing.

Emergency treatment: The First Aid i.e. given to the pediatric patient is CPR; this is the life saving procedure when the patient is drowning or when he is under extreme suffocation. CPR is Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation; this medical procedure is the combination of providing oxygen and maintaining the circulation of blood in infant’s body. Some considerations that are to be taken or followed according to CPR steps Red Cross; this procedure is to be performed by an accredited CPR course trainee.

Step-1: The responsiveness of the infant is to be checked. Shake the body of the infant. Make him/her to produce noise.

Step-2: Make the infant to lie on her/his back, see that the infant is not with any injury. Some infants with spinal injuries should be under the care of two persons.

Step-3: See that the infant’s head and neck is not twisted; open the pathway i.e. mouth with one of your hands.  Check whether the infant is struggling either to breathe with mouth or nose.

Step-4: If the infant is not breathing, close the mouth and nose tightly and give a mouth to mouth contact. In the similar way some compression movements in the chest region are made; the compressions must be made about 1/3 to ½ depths. 30 compressions are to be given until the child starts breathing. The whole process requires about 2 minutes.

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