The appearance of a foreign body in the respiratory tract is a fairly common phenomenon in childhood, especially in children from 1 to 3 years old. Neposedy actively learn the world, including by testing the surrounding things (coins, batteries, peas, beads, pins, small toys) to taste. The entry of objects into the respiratory tract, when, with an unexpectedly deep inhalation, small parts are swallowed, get stuck, is called aspiration. In addition, children often choke while eating, because they have not yet learned how to swallow in perfection. Foreign bodies of the upper respiratory tract obstruct the access of oxygen to the lungs. This is fraught with suffocation, loss of consciousness and, in the end, fatal. A prolonged presence of a foreign body in the lungs can lead to their inflammation. Therefore, parents need to know how to help the child in such situations.
Symptoms of aspiration of a foreign body
Little children can not report the incident, so it is important to recognize the trouble in time and to help. Aspiration manifests itself in the appearance of a strong cough. The child's face can turn white and turn blue. Breathing becomes wheezy and difficult, dyspnea occurs. If the object has got into the trachea, when you scream and cough you hear a squelching sound. The kid can complain about the discomfort when swallowing and the pain in the ear. With complete closure of the airway, the child can not breathe air, there comes asphyxia and loss of consciousness.
Emergency aspiration care
To prevent death, immediately call an ambulance and try to clear the airways.
When aspirating in children under 1 year:
- The child is put on his forearm on the tummy face down and apply 5 pats of the palm between the shoulder blades.
- In the absence of the result, the toddler is put on his knees on the back, lowering his head downwards, and producing 5 shocks with two fingers in the lower part of the thorax.
Pats on the back and tremors along the chest should be alternated before falling out of a foreign body or the arrival of an ambulance.
When aspirating in children older than 1 year:
- The child is put on a chair with his head down and applied
5 pats of the palm between the shoulder blades. - If the foreign body does not appear in the oral cavity, the adult becomes behind the child and wraps it around the waist. Clicking on the belly, the adult produces 5 jerks from the bottom up.
Before the appearance of a foreign body in the oral cavity or the arrival of an ambulance brigade on the back and a thrust along the chest should be alternated.
If success is not achieved and the child suffocates, it is necessary to open the airways, throwing back the child's head. Artificial respiration is carried out until the emergence of an ambulance team.