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Mar 15, 2011

Baby accidentally scalded do?


With the increase in the amount of used electricity, gas, fire, home to some of the security risks also increase accordingly. Usually the baby suffered burns, mostly due to neglect by adults. Face the baby scalded, MOM and dad need to calm down, and then under different circumstances, targeted for emergency treatment, to reduce scalding the baby as a result of injury to the extent possible.



Hydrothermal Burns
Hot soup, hot pots and bathing water, warm water bag, baby a little careless, or MOM and dad are not careful, these high temperature of the liquid may cause the baby scalded, faced with these situations, parents what to do with it?
Approach
Remove clothing
Baby clothes is hot water when it happened, if not quickly took off his clothes, allowing baby to bubble to the bathtub and then take off your clothes or clothes with scissors cut removed.
Cold water cooling
After the removal of clothing, with tap water a lot of shower, soaking scalded areas, for the cool the wound. General cooling down time of 15 minutes can be.
Smudge medicine oil
Baby scalded if serious, did not cause wounds, mother to baby drug smear oil. Mother medicine oil drops baby burn part, uniform wipe gently with your finger.
Package wrapped
Coated drug directly on the package after disinfection, clean cloth or gauze handkerchief of send the baby to hospital for treatment. Careful not to any foreign drug-coated to prevent wound infection.
Rushed to hospital
Even if the baby only minor burns, best also to burn and plastic surgery hospital.


Considerations
1. when baby wound area is too large, the body vulnerable to cold, preferably intermediate cooling of a break before continuing work. Cold water cooling not only can slow down burn injury caused by speed, also has an analgesic effect.
2. If the baby scalded the more serious, removing clothes, has been a noticeable red water seepage of wound (epidermal has burned out) not to wash with water, so as to avoid infection; also do not put ice directly on the cut cooling, so as to avoid skin frostbite. Gentamicin and saline wipe the affected area, using gauze close after the package and immediately sent to hospital for treatment.
3. If the tongue is burned, you can gargle with salt water anti-inflammatory, and then with a vinegar.


Chemical burns
Some families will use to caustic soda, but placing the caustic soda just babies if you accidentally add to, will be burned. In the face of this chemical burns, MOM and Dad has to do with it?


Approach
Flowing water flushing
Whatever the chemicals, once the baby was injured with flowing water immediately after flushing the wound, at least 15 minutes. Never put babies in the wound in water, because the chemicals, easily lead to more serious injuries.
Immediately sent to hospital
Usually need to be rushed to hospital for treatment of chemical burns injuries, so do emergency treatment for the baby at the same time, if side can do to help people, immediately dial the emergency telephone, hospital ambulance to pick up the baby to try to shorten treatment time.


Considerations
If the injury to the baby\'s eyes, should be packed baby eyelid and a lot of clear water (preferably sterile water) continue flushing.


Flame burns
Some families, Daddy likes package discarded casually after smoking cigarettes, lighters throw; mother does not close during the cooking gas; continued use in some areas of the furnace for sth These are very easily cause the baby to be flame burns.


Approach
Fire extinguishing
When the baby was on fire, blanket or large cloth available single-wrapped, never leave your baby running at this time, so as not to make fire. If a baby can understand words, MOM and Dad can immediately hands the baby to live facial flap in place. Flap after the baby is constantly scrolling or MOM and dad with a large piece of wet linen package to live fire.
Cooling
After the fire goes out, baby clothes, according to the previously mentioned methods, let baby bubble bath then take off your clothes, then with a washbasin, a ladle water basins or baths of water immersion burns in parts, with a large shower tap water, cooling of for the wound. Cooling down time of 15 minutes.
Seek medical advice
Burn baby area larger or smaller, do not soak for too long, so as not to lower body temperature caused by excessive shock and delayed treatment. Especially when the baby is not clear or you can call when you wake, to quickly send to hospital.


Considerations
1. do not rubbing, massaging, squeezing scald skin, do not hurry with a towel, wipe, wound the underwear should be cut down, so as to avoid skin peeling of skin scald.
2. the wounds do not use red syrup or purple syrup liquid smudge of colour, so as not to affect the judgment of doctors on burn depth, not soda, soy sauce, toothpaste and other graffiti, so as to avoid infection or wound deeper.


Electrical burns
Baby strong curiosity, self-awareness of the protection of weaker, slight negligence if MOM and Dad at the time of care, is likely to be burned. For example: electric wires exposed, wire connector is not caused by aging processes.


Approach
Cut off power supply, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
Insulators for first cut off the power or the baby with the separation of charged. When baby when loss of consciousness, first check the breathing, heartbeat, if the heartbeats stop, should be in-place immediately the purpose of artificial cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, at the same time as soon as possible notify the hospital medical staff participate in rescue, cardiac and respiratory preliminary recovery and then sent to the hospital continued to Rob

The blaze.
Immersion or directly sent to the hospital
After electric burn injury levels deep, and damage in the body, not after medical treatment in salt water, foaming water directly. But if clothes catch fire of flame burn burn you will still need to deal with.

Special notice
1. for the serious burns, especially the head, neck, baby shock due to at any time, should be sent to hospital for medical treatment as soon as possible.
2. mild burn of head, face, neck, after clean wound drug coating without bandage, so that the wound bare, in contact with air, you can keep the wound dried and can accelerate wound recovery.
3. If the baby has a fever, increased pain, discharge description wound is infected with an inflammation, doctors should be requested.
4. baby burned more than 5% of the total body surface area (per 1% body surface area equivalent to a hand), after correct early emergency treatment, should go to regular specialist burns treatment, so as not to delay treatment, causing adverse effects.


TIPS
1. MOM and Dad in peacetime is security awareness training to the baby. Such as: baby of the Church in the use of drinking water when cold water then water; the bath water temperature first hand try.
2. parents also must be conscientious in their daily lives, attention for open-water bottles don\'t place in the baby at home can be enough to place iron utensils and food also must not allow the baby to touch to; iron after use, it shall be placed to the Security Department.
3. babies can scald is the case, MOM and dad is important to note that: such as winter heating scald, warm water bag, open kettles, electric irons, Fireworks, birthday candles, eat barbecue, hot pot, a straw to drink hot drinks, drinking fountains, and so on.

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